Word: reconverting
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...resident tutors want to move out when they marry. Non-resident tutorships mean fewer distractions and fewer duties. But several married tutors have said they would prefer the closer contact with undergraduates that a resident tutorship provides. Little can be done for them until the older Houses decide to reconvert some of their rooms into suitable apartments...
...Bunting emphasized that the Fourth House was part of a plan to improve the Quad as a whole and reconvert emergency doubles. She hopes to spend $1,000,000 on each house on renovation, again possibly putting in a kitchenette on each floor...
Adams and Eliot, which were particularly over-crowded this year, report that they have just about settled everyone. Eliot had to reconvert a couple of rooms; one or two of its members went to other Houses, and a few are still being temporarily housed...
Watson pointed out that all the Houses except Quincy and Leverett deconverted five rooms each over the summer, leaving 35 fewer places for upperclassmen. They said that the College has been deconverting since 1950 and "did not want to reconvert" any rooms...
Understandably frightened at the thought of an Opposition completely unable to oppose, Gaitskell is trying to solidify the authority of the Parliamentary Party--the Labour M.P.'s--over the conference. Attempting to reconvert the regenerate, he spoke last week with an eloquence that Cousins is unlikely to forget. "There are some of us," he said, "who will fight and fight and fight again to save the party we love, to bring back its sanity and honesty and dignity so that our party with its great past may retain its glory and its greatness...