Word: residental
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There will be "no justification" for the proposed $1 million non-resident student center unless the College continues a policy of "forced commuting," Dean Bender asserted yesterday. The center is part of the Program for Harvard College, and preliminary building plans have been prepared.
"All indications are that the decline of voluntary commuters who can get admitted will continue." Bender explained, "and will finally hit a floor at around three per cent of the student body." Non-resident students now comprise nine per cent of the College.
On the other hand, Bender pointed out that adding more commuters is a "relatively inexpensive" way of enlarging the College. "By building the new non-resident center, and making the lot of the commuters more attractive, we could handle 500 students, for example, at a much lower cost than residence...
Every time the price level goes up, "a large group of students get nearer the economic margin." In connection with this fact, Leighton noted, there is the distinct possibility of admitting an increased number of non-resident students.
The Scramble. In the dictator's final scramble for safety, ferries, yachts, airliners and private planes were jammed. One Cubana Airlines pilot, at gunpoint, flew 92 refugees to New York just before armed civilians seized the Havana airport. To the Dominican Republic, besides Batista, went Andrés Rivero...