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Though most undergraduates at the time were not following the progress of the PHC, they could feel the housing pinch that spurred it. The seven existing houses—Adams, Dunster, Eliot, Kirkland, Leverett, Lowell and Winthrop—were built for a normal capacity of 1,846 undergraduates, according to the October 1957 issue of Harvard Today. By 1957, that number had ballooned to 2,955. With the funds from the PHC, an eighth house was to be built by 1959. In March of 1957, The Crimson reported that the block bounded by Mill, Mt. Auburn, Plympton and DeWolfe...
...1950s, faced with a rapidly growing demand for higher education, University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 decided to increase the number of undergraduate Houses from seven to 10. This would make up part of the a broader expansion that would include 33 new buildings over the next decade...
While this car accident and the consequent death of two undergraduates were shocking enough, these victims were only two of seven undergraduates total who died during the winter break of 1956. During the holidays, three other students—Thomas S. Gates III ’56, Myron T. Herrick ’57, and Jedediah H. McLane ’58—were killed in a fire during a ski trip in Canada, and two more—Winthrop P. Smith ’58 and John J. Woodward ’59—were found dead...
...oriented network has gained from previous controversial shows. But the network's stated intention had always been to raise awareness of the shortage of donor organs. "We wanted to make a statement," BNN chairman Laurens Drillich said in a press release after the show. "That worked. In the past seven days there has been more debate about organ donation than in the last seven years...
...Plato's Closet, which caters to teens, a computerized system in each outlet spits out prices for popular brands like Abercrombie & Fitch, Baby Phat and Seven. There's even a guide to help workers determine the age of, say, a pair of shorts from the Gap on the basis of the styling of the label. (Plato's won't take anything more than a year old.) Owned by the Minneapolis-based Winmark Corp., Plato's has opened some 200 franchises since 1999. The company rang up more than $100 million in sales in 2006 and plans to open 35 additional...