Word: present
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headline news from Germany early this week was the electoral triumph of Mayor Willy Brandt in beleaguered West Berlin. But the accent on Berlin in the headlines-and in the newscasts-too often emphasized the present moment and neglected the past and the future. Using Berlin, Moscow has revived one of the oldest and bitterest cold war issues -the division of Germany into nations, one free, one Communist. Fearful of changing the status quo in Germany but equally fearful of doing nothing, statesmen of a dozen nations are today earnestly reexamining solutions to the problem proposed by ingenious men ranging...
...Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Bach Society Orchestra will present a joint Christmas concert tonight at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. This performance will mark the first Cambridge performance of Christmas music by the combined chorus and orchestra...
According to present estimates, the uniform rate would be set at approximately $220-260. This would represent a sizable rent increase for the student who just manages to come to Harvard independent of financial aid, and lives in a $150 room. It would be unrealistic to hope that some sort of blanket financial aid could be given to all the people for whom the new rate would constitute a serious financial problem. Although the sums involved are of considerable importance to individual students, they are small enough so that they may well escape the consideration of the financial aid office...
...comparison with the arguments against a uniform room rate, arguments in its favor take on in general a secondary aspect. Certainly there are many which can be readily eliminated by a modification of the present system. One of the major objections to retaining rents as they are is that the deconversion which will result from moving upperclassmen into Quincy House would necessitate a drastic raise in the upper rent bracket. However, it appears that this possibility has been overemphasized. While deconversion may indeed occasion a small general increase in rents, most of the newly-vacated space will be taken...
...objection that the existing rent system is in many aspects artificial cannot honestly be denied. At present there are twenty-seven rent levels which are embarrassingly out of keeping with the quality of the rooms involved, and when Quincy House is completed, a rent span of over $100 will certainly be unrealistic. However, this problem can be minimized by cutting down the number of different rent levels to not more than a dozen...