Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Financing the housing also may prove to be troublesome, for the Corporation has said that a portion--30 per cent in Boston--of the new housing it will sponsor is to be rented to the community "at rents comparable to those prevailing in public housing." With the high costs of land in Cambridge, and the high construction costs everywhere, continuing subsidies are required to bring rents down to these levels. Given the alternatives of paying the subsidies out of its won pocked or seeking government aid, the Corporation broke with its past reluctance to plunge into the maze of Federal...
September 22: The year opened with talk of money, Harvard spending it and Radcliffe getting it. Dean Ford announced that Harvard's teaching fellows would get an immediate pay raise of 17 to 25 per cent. At the same time, the Corporation said that undergraduate tuition would have to go up by $400 -- from $2000 to $2400 -- in the 1969-70 school year. At Radcliffe, Mrs. Mary I. Bunting announced that the college had received the largest grant in its history -- a $5.4 million donation from Mrs. Alisa Mellon Bruce--to help finance Currier House, the new dormitory complex...
...rivals let a few of the regular-slate nominees go unchallenged, saying that "management requires both continuity and experience." Leaders of the new group also started a campaign to get students and Faculty to attend the election meeting, since the regular slate would be automatically elected unless 5 per cent (about 1500 people) of the Coop's membership came to the meeting...
December 6: Another look at the Radcliffe budget showed disturbing signs. For the first time in more than a decade, Radcliffe had run an operating deficit in 1967-68, and even the planned 15 per cent increase in student fees did not appear likely to head off a bigger deficit...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee released the results of a poll showing that undergraduates overwhelmingly favored co-ed living experiments. More than 90 per cent of Harvard and Radcliffe students said they would like the University to set up optional co-ed dorms...