Word: overcrowdedness
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The public health school has already outgrown its dated, overcrowded Longwood compound. It already faces a shortage of 100,000 square feet, a deficit that is projected to grow substantially over the coming years.
The funeral might have triggered a series of inquiries about the plot, since the Corporation decided only a few years after Marquand’s death to take steps to ensure that the Hill would not be overcrowded with graves.
“I don’t recall our even contemplating the issue that we were going to be overcrowded,” Wilson says. “We thought the party would spill out onto the Quad, but it didn’t.”
Obviously, that's bad news if you happen to be in the business of selling, say, iron to China. But a slowdown would be welcome in many quarters. China's appetite for raw materials has been Brobdingnagian. The country consumed 40% of the world's cement, 31% of the world...
Prince Edward is the only place where the students themselves launched the drive for integration. Before Brown, the county's black high school was so overcrowded, some pupils attended class in leaky, tar-papered shacks outside. Their outdated textbooks and buses were hand-me-downs from the white schools. One...