Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Edward S. Harkness gave the University 15 million dollars to build its seven houses, he created an unanticipated problem. As the rest of the college began to grow roots, the sorry plight of the commuter gradually became more apparent. While housemembers derived a sense of community and at least an iota of social distinction from belonging to a house, the commuter wandered about aimlessly, and enviously. In 1934, it was hoped that Allston Burr had provided a solution when he donated Dudley for the Commuters...
Both the problem of crowded houses, and the special plight of the commuter could best be alleviated by the building of new Commuters' Center. If commuters were given a library which could hold more than sixteen tightly packed people, a dining hall looking less like Hayes-Bickford, and bunk-room large enough to accomodate the finals rush, commuters might find their center almost enviable. With their tutors in the same building, rather than a block away, their center would also seem more like a house. An additional bit of prestige might also be added by giving the commuters a housemaster...
Testifying last week at a hearing of the House Committee on Small Business, which (like Barnes) is chiefly interested in the plight of U.S. banana jobbers who depend on United Fruit for their supplies, the trustbuster reported that the company...
...failed to pull Stevenson in, but may also have locked themselves out of the Democratic National Convention. They might be able to wangle their way onto the floor by some political maneuvers, but they might have to pledge their votes to Kefauver to do it. Pausing to notice the plight of his erstwhile foes, Kefauver last week was big about it all. Said he: "I still would like to have Mr. Freeman and Senator Humphrey on my convention delegation...
Boston Red Sox Slugger Ted Williams, yanked out of baseball for 17 months when the Marine Corps sent him off to fly combat missions in Korea in 1952, sounded a wrathful cry over the plight of Johnny Podres. Now a 1-A military draft eligible, Brooklyn's A-1 Pitcher Podres, 23, winner of two of the four victories that gave the Dodgers their first world championship last fall, spent the past three years in the 4-F bracket because of a bad back. Ever mum about his own recall to a second long tour of duty, Marine Williams...