Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money largely to attract "big name" visitors to their guest suites. But, to import a celebrity is expensive (he receives transportation costs plus a generous "honorarium," seldom refused). As Master Perkins explained, a House can easily spend 15 per cent of its yearly allowance on a single short-term visitor. Furthermore, celebrities are busy men, usually unable to remain in Cambridge more than a few days. Contact with students may be limited to shaking hands, trading pleasantries over sherry glasses, and a speech. It is never enlightening to hear a man--however great--repeat what he said last week...
...Masters encourage more long-term visits and less "big name" whistle-stops, if they channel their money into student projects rather than House seminar rooms, the Ford grants will better serve their purpose of rounding out the rather spotty educational offerings of the House system...
Last month the Council voted to hold a forum in the Fall Term to consider the question of whether or not to rejoin the Regional Planning at M.I.T. Harvard National Student Association...
...will leave Cambridge next January and return at the beginning of the spring term...
...possibility, the final solution to non-Honors tutorial will represent a combination of the three proposed plans. A final decision will not be announced until later in the term...