Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the committee apparently went beyond its mandate to study Harvard's pre-medical advisory system, it failed to adequately examine alternatives to the present structure of Harvard pre-medical instruction. It did not recommend the institution of a second organic chemistry course or a way in which intense competition...
Summing up, Steiner proposes that "the major question for Europe is where the best of American civilization, with its great efficiencies, its uses of color, space, fabric, its ideas of comfort and speed of communication, can successfully meet with the values and traditions of the old world." Perhaps surprisingly, Steiner...
The first hands in the ladies garment industry were Jewish and Italian immigrants. In return for long hours in overcrowded sweatshops, these men and women might earn enough to survive. When wages in the needle trades declined in relation to other jobs, women workers began to outnumber the men. (Presently...
At the trial, Prosecutor Nubé spelled out the implications. Think of the risks, he told the three-judge court that sits in The Netherlands instead of a jury: "Risks in legacy cases, families struggling with the problem of a nasty old patient, problems of overcrowded hospitals, the problem of...
New school construction has been halted, and existing schools are seriously overcrowded. Cass Technical High School, for example, was built in 1917 for 2,500 students; today it has 4,800. Space is so scarce that counselors meet parents in the high-ceilinged main office to discuss students' private...