Word: renting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to a notice signed by Mary Tillman, Secretary of Dormitory Housing, any student "apprehended" preparing meals in his room "will be evicted but held responsible for rent until the end of the academic year...
...result of complaints last September that nine landlords on the Registry list were refusing to rent to Negroes, the Housing Registry instituted a policy in early December requiring that landlords agree "to rent to Harvard and Radcliffe people regardless of their race, creed, color or nationality...
...hopefully sets out on a writing career with a ?250 legacy. His tactics might seem strange and austere to modern graduates of schools of creative writing, summer conferences, or writers' workshops. He pays four years' advance rent on an attic, a "cave" where he can "agonize in secret," buys some paper, a Waterman Ideal pen, a bed, a mug, a plate, a crate of oranges and a sack of coarse oatmeal. Except that he is "tired and sick to death of all people who on earth do dwell," he has no enemy in the world. But soon...
...Yard will be used more as a "test case" next Fall than as the forerunner of a complete change of College policy. Monro asserted that the College is not irrevocably committed to the single rent scale, and the multi-scale system used in the Houses may well continue in the future...
...single-rent proposal for the Yard alone is a good solution to an interesting suggestion," Monro said. "There will be some problems, but the opportunities for benefit far outweigh any problems that might arise...