Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The problems of the inner cities have been ignored for years. Injustice in the courts and police stations is paralleled by the injustice in the economic and educational systems. Public schools receive progressively less money, fewer teachers and minimal community support while they face overcrowded classrooms made up of impoverished...
MAC rats have watched as the Harvard masses turned what was once a decent, wellkept gym into a noisy, overcrowded circus where one must scramble for weights, fight for dumbbells and stand in long lines for the most popular (and most misused) equipment. That's why so many of us...
In the cafeterias, the food is overstarchy, underflavored and generally lacking in nutritional value. Lecture halls are so cavernous and overcrowded that binoculars may be required to read the lips of the professor. Dormitory rooms, carefully modeled after prison cells, are strictly BYOB: bring your own bookshelves, blankets, bulletin boards...
As any Harvard undergraduate knows, the Harvard house system is presently overcrowded, with hundreds of students living in annex housing on DeWolfe Street, in Apley Court and Claverly Hall and at other locations.
I don't care if the dining hall is overcrowded. I don't care if Adams House residents feel like they are being invaded. So what if we cheery Quadsters or merry Matherites violate the pretentious pseudo-intellectual atmosphere.