Word: presentments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army library in Shannon Hall, the Colonel hopes that the endowment funds will permit the collection to be constantly renewed with up-to-date books, particularly on problems of national security. At present, the library is small, but comprehensive. Its utility, however, is strongly dependent upon constant additions which can only come through a special endowment...
These tentative proposals or others might provide for those freshmen who have to commute enough contact with the rest of their class to integrate them into the College community to a degree higher than at present. By separating freshmen from upperclassmen among commuters as among residents the College would change the emphasis from "freshman commuters" to "commuting freshmen." No longer would a man be able to spend four years at Harvard wholly in the society of the Boston-oriented, and the problem of the commuter at Harvard might be one step nearer solution. Harold L. Burstyn...
...tenuous one at best: students who represent a narrow economic, social, intellectual, and geographical section of the Harvard community are supposed to become members of a typical Harvard House--Dudley--while remaining part of the undergraduate community. The weaknesses of this ideal are needlessly strained, however, by the present eating arrangements for Freshman commuters...
Some 60 students do not, at present, have assigned rooms, since there were only 1038 vacancies for the 1098 applicants...
Citing the high proportion of students entering their first choice House, Watson praised the present system of House assignments. "Although it's a great deal of work, it is far preferable to the IBM method used at Yale," he remarked...