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Harvard was bulging at its seams: its House and Yard dormitories over-crowded, its laboratory and faculty office space inadequate, its health facilities scattered and outmoded. The flight of married students and young teachers from substandard dwellings in Cambridge to the suburbs was accelerating. All this formed an unpromising background if Harvard wished to contribute to the general expansion of higher education necessary in the year to come...
...True to Be Good, by George Bernard Shaw, is substandard G.B.S., full of mildewed seventyish garrulities on religion, militarism and the idle rich. A full cast of stars-Glynis Johns, Robert Preston, David Wayne, Cyril Ritchard, Eileen Heckart, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Ray Middleton-rushes about filling the dramatic vacuum...
...True to Be Good, by George Bernard Shaw, is substandard G.B.S., full of mildewed seventyish garrulities on religion, militarism and the idle rich. A full cast of stars-Glynis Johns, Robert Preston, David Wayne, Cyril Ritchard, Eileen Heckart, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Ray Middleton-rushes about filling the dramatic vacuum...
...Direct federal financing of an urban renewal program to eliminate the backlog of substandard housing in which, according to the 1960 census, a fifth of the nation dwells...
Another facet of the PBH work will be getting in touch with families living in the slums. The volunteers hope to get an idea of substandard living conditions while alerting residents to the urban renewal going on in the area...