Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea for the project came from Itiel Sola Pool, chairman of the Department of Political Science at M.I.T. and applications. Pool will go to Vietnam this summer to supervise the program's beginning, but will return in the fall...
...hotels were "obsolete and rundown." While other motel chains bent over backwards to be everything from convention halls to resorts, Downtowner Corp. zeroed in on the all-but-forgotten traveling salesman for its bread-and-butter trade. The motel mix Matthews offers is free and easy parking, a swimming pool and a good room within walking distance of the town's No. 1 retail center. Obviously the formula works. With a healthy 75% occupancy rate last year (v. 64% for hotels) Downtowner Corp. rang up sales of $15,300,000, or 37% over...
Bigger Job, Fewer Hours. The teaching task has similarly soared. In the past ten years, student enrollment has more than doubled, from 2,660,000 to 5,526,000. But the number of new Ph.D.s, who form the major pool of college teachers, has increased only 73%?and less than half of these have actually entered teaching. As a result, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching predicts that the nation's colleges will need about 35,700 more teachers by 1970 than will actually be available...
...number of first choices for each House in strict secrecy, preventing the "popularity contest" which gave some Houses undeserved bad reputations. The first step in the process would be for Masters in Houses with few first choice applicants to choose as many freshmen as they needed from the common pool. The Masters could thereby sidestep the unsavory practice of "raiding" a popular House's first choice roster, and at the same time build up their own Houses by claiming the cream of the freshman class...
Swimmers competed at the Radcliffe Pool during open hours, entering as many laps as they could swim toward their House total. Over the five days, 115 swimmers swam a total of over 62 miles. Freshman Anne Aylward registered the highest individual total, logging 416 laps...