Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People, Not Playmates. Much of the college rush toward coeducation is explained by economics. As costs mount, many schools are forced to seek more students to bring in more tuition, find it far easier to attract students to a coed school. Coeducation also virtually doubles the fund-raising possibilities in a school's community. Mergers and affiliations also provide more economical operation; neighboring schools that agree to some plan of union can share faculties, libraries and lab facilities, avoid duplication of academic specialties...
...idea is to aid groups in setting up non-profit corporations to buy apartment houses; instead of paying rent to a landlord, a resident would pay a pro-rated share of the mortgage (plus a charge for maintenance services) and would wind up own apartment. The corporation could also seek money for rehabilitation, and split the payments on the loan among residents. Planners figure that the cost to residents would be roughly the same as the rent they are now paying...
...tall, fair, baby-faced lad whose pronouncements sometimes lean toward the studied and pompous, Buswell entered Harvard because he believes that it is the duty of the performer to "seek an expression peculiar to his generation, and college is one way of discovering what my generation is all about."* As a result, while most young musicians today approach the classics on bended knee, vowing technically precise, note-for-note fidelity, Buswell views his role as that of a "performer in the creative sense, equally creative as the composer...
...more than changing a vote or two in Congress," the pamphlet reads. "We seek to defeat Lyndon Johnson...
ruin whole households for a foolish prayer. Devoured by peace, we seek devouring...