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...average rent for freshman suites will also rise, from about $195 to the new single rent of $215 per term. No price distinction will be made between newer rooms in the Prescott St. dormitories and the older Yard buildings, a major policy change from the previous system of 27 different rents...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Room Rents Hiked 15%; Single Price Established | 1/28/1959 | See Source »

Hardship cases among non-student tenants will be given "special consideration," Whitlock emphasized. Rather than force out residents as the University did two years ago with the Prescott St. apartments, it will "handle these cases individually." Some residents have lived in the building for 28 years...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: University Will House Married Grad Students | 1/7/1959 | See Source »

...been an Eisenhower State Department appointee and remains thoroughly responsive to the President's wishes, announced that he would vote for the Old Guard candidate for Senate leader, Illinois Everett Dirksen. Exception: he would support his Kentucky colleague, John Sherman Cooper, sponsored by Connecticut's Prescott Bush, for Republican leader if Cooper got into the running. But later Cooper withdrew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Frustrated Loyalists | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

Yesterday about 50 freshmen reported punctured and mutilated tires on their bicycles. Previous to this, other damages were discovered over the weekend, Toohy stated. In addition, two bicycles have been stolen from the Halls in the Prescott St. area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vandals Strike Yard; Steal, Damage Bikes | 12/10/1958 | See Source »

...Hutchens decided that Lolita "is not, I think, a distinguished work." In the New York Times Sunday book section Novelist Elizabeth Janeway praised Lolita at length ("One of the funniest and one of the saddest books that will be published this year"), but in a daily Times review, Orville Prescott contradicted her: "There are two equally serious reasons why it isn't worth any adult reader's attention. The first is that it is dull, dull, dull . . . The second is that it is repulsive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lolita Case | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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