Word: slowed
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...believe the College can increase in slow and carefully measured steps to an absolute maximum of another 100 students, if another dormitory and the cooperative house can quickly be provided," Jordan stated. If undergaduate enrollment exceeds 1,200, he said "every physical facility will be strained beyond efficient use" and the endowments in scholarship resources will be once more hopelessly inadequate...
...hearts and minds of Irishmen he was still "The Long" Fella"-the gangling, imperious young rebel commandant whose gallantry and skill during the Easter Rebellion moved even his British foes to admiration. But, as The Long Fella himself knew only too well, the slow wear of the years had transformed the youthful hero of legend into an old man, too weary to enjoy the daily cut and thrust of parliamentary politics, so near blind that he could no longer read the papers. Last week, as he has so often in the past, Eamon de Valera, 76, imposed his own view...
Another reason for the changes, according to Bold, was the desire to strengthen the Program for Harvard College. "The President of the University has told us that he still needs $25 million," Bold said. "The President feels that a really topnotch football team might stimulate some of those slow-footed alumni...
Somehow, all the blustering statistics do not add up to very much in the way of entertainment. What Wilcoxon and Quinn have produced is just a half-deflated imitation of the old man at his overblown best. The pace is often too vague or too slow, the color suave and unexciting, the costumes tasteful but somehow forgettable...
Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House, also thought that Reunions centered in the Houses were "a likely development," but he said they would be "slow in coming." Technical problems would stand in the way of lodging returning alumni in their former Houses, he asserted...