Word: problem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Masters' recent request that graduate students be allowed to move into rooms made vacant by the construction of Leverett towers is the logical solution to a somewhat unexpected problem. If contributors to the Program had realized that by the spring of 1959 the College would be wondering what to do with its newly acquired rooming space, they might have been slightly amused at the pleas for more rooms. But what the Masters have actually proposed is a solution to a temporary problem, and it should be considered as such...
...appealing from the viewpoint of House life, for it balances the exclusive representation of the Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences with the less academic, professional fields, such as medicine, business and law. But, more important, it is an economical solution to what could be an unpleasant financial problem. Both of the alternates--deconversion of overcrowded suites by putting students into the vacated rooms, and use of the empty rooms for non-resident tutors' offices--would force the present number of students to pay for a larger number of rooms--presumably through a sizable increase in room rents, and reduction...
...while the Masters' suggestion is highly satisfactory as the answer to an immediate problem, it should not be adopted as a permanent solution without very careful thought. Certainly, for example, the College should abolish forced commuting before moving in graduates, and it should never bring back the forced commuter system just to maintain some quota of graduate students in the Houses...
...were reported to the U.S., it would, said McElroy, create "exactly the kind of a situation which the President of the U.S. at that time would have a very serious question posed for him . . . That is a description of a situation which would put really a very, very rough problem before the President...
...West's will more than Korea did. He ridiculed the notion that Khrushchev will "be put off by talk." He rejected a new Berlin airlift as nothing more than "another formula for putting off the evil day" when the Russians either take over or are engaged "where the problem must be faced," on the ground...