Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three new Houses--including Quincy--stand "at the top of the list of building objectives" in the Program, and presumably this additional space will be used to relieve overcrowding. Quincy will open next Fall, the Leverett Towers a year later, followed by two more Houses in the near future. Extensive deconversion, it is thought, cannot be far behind...
Back at the beginning of the century, when classes numbered only about 400 students, it was possible for an undergraduate to know at least a little bit about each person in his class, and in those days a class-wide election could have considerable meaning. As things stand at present, although one may regret the growth of the College into such a large, impersonal body, one can scarcely deny that the election of a symbolic leader for a Harvard Class is a rather meaningless proposition...
...student should begin by stating his position on the issue in question and his plan of attack, according to O'Neil. He should keep referring to his original stand, making clear the significance of the raw facts he introduces...
...Eames argues soberly that "to the designer, the chair provides an area where he can follow through with an architectural concept and test it directly in terms of human scale and function." But the man whose chairs stand in over 1,000,000 homes unabashedly admires the old along with the new, perches himself on a stub-legged Indian chair in the house he designed for himself in Venice, Calif. His dining room (background] is furnished with his prize-winning 1944 chair. And, his black leather chair near by frankly owes a great deal to the Victorian functionalist, William Morris...
...golf (low 80s) or deep-sea fishing, is the product of a near obsession about time-the "fourth dimension in a corporation-beyond men, money and materials." When a G.E. executive recently suggested a 1963 deadline for a project, Cordiner asked for 1959. Says he: "That way we stand a good chance of getting it by 1961. Otherwise, we might...