Word: overcrowding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pusey notes in his statement, however, this plan of affiliation could not be adopted. In the first place, the Masters of the residential Houses were not eager to assume a greater administrative load, or to further overcrowd their physical facilities. Secondly, the commuters themselves, as shown by a poll in 1953, were almost unanimously opposed. Not wanting to spread out their sack lunches beneath the crystal chandeliers of Lowell House, they felt it better to have one strong Dudley than seven weak ones. Similar to the Revolutionary aphorism, their reaction was "Let's hang together or we'll hang seperately...
...until the government tried to extend its policy last month to the big city of Johannesburg, that it found it had seriously underestimated the power of the women. The black women of Johannesburg adopted an unusual strategy: not to avoid arrest but to welcome the chance to overcrowd the jails. Morning after morning, they would board buses in the suburbs, some carrying umbrellas, others carrying babies on their backs, and head for the grimy brick building that houses the pass office. There they would chant, "Sera sa motho ke pasa [The pass is the enemy of man]," and sometimes they...
...hardly reasonable or fair for the University to enforce rules that overcrowd streets a few blocks away and leave nearby streets bare at night. A much more sensible solution, and one that seems to have worked well in the brief period it was tried here, was the alternate-side plan set up by the City Council. This temporary plan is still in operation in the rest of the city, and will probably be extended by the Council until...
...their next monthly meeting, the seven Housemasters will consider plans to acquaint freshmen with the Houses. Probably the best plan would be to allow each freshman a total of 25 House dinners throughout the year. This would not overcrowd House dining rooms, and it would give each freshman a chance to look over the advantages and activities of each House. He might even meet the tutors. And when House applications come out, the freshmen would have a little more on which to base their decisions...