Word: overflowing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there is a certain social stigma associated with the building. Dom Pantano, a transfer student placed in the overflow housing, said last week that when he tells people where he lives they say, "Oh, you live at the Y? That's the pits." Pantano added that the atmosphere where he lives is not quite what he had expected at Northeastern. He said when he asked the desk clerk if there was a cigarette machine, the clerk said in shock, "Son, this is the YMCA...
Boston University is one of the area schools hardest hit by overenrollment. This year it has about 600 more students than it had expected early last spring. To house the overflow, the school has acquired three nearby apartment buildings...
Although overenrollment at Tufts is not as bad, overflow students are worse off. About 160 Tufts undergraduates are spending this year in a stripped-down section of the Sheraton Commander Hotel north of the Cambridge Common--more than a mile from their campus. Tufts has leased out the hotel rooms for the whole academic year, and the hotel management has removed its furniture for the duration...
...longer are some freshmen squeezed into small Quad doubles--those rooms are now singles for upperclassmen. Overflow sophomores from River Houses are no longer placed in Canaday Hall, which now only houses freshmen and is less crowded than in previous years, according to Ann B. Spence, assistant dean of the College...
This was not a vast, much-publicized Billy Graham crusade like those that have drawn millions of people throughout the non-Communist world. The audiences on the hillside and in subsequent overflow church meetings were made up of devout Protestants, not the general public. To make sure of that, Hungary's state-run media carried no advance notices of the gatherings...