Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rising. Nelson Rockefeller's task: to rent at the depths of the Depression no less than 5,000,000 sq. ft. of floor space. He did it by luring potential tenants with more attractive rents and facilities, sped their entry into Rockefeller Center by buying up their long-term leases in other buildings. Rival landlords fumed, one filed a $10 million damage suit. But tempers cooled and the suit was dropped when Rockefeller Center set up a subleasing office, found tenants for the space from which it had drawn its own clientele...
Parietal hours will be extended "only during the Yale weekend" this term. The House Masters granted approval to the idea originally suggested by the Student Council last spring...
...spring term ended with the HDC's production in Sanders of O'Neill's Marco Millions. This was the largest show ever undertaken at Harvard. It was beautifully acted by a huge cast of 75, and had stunning sets and costumes; but it was not a big popular success--the public was not yet ready for this play, which, although highly unorthodox and exotic, is a masterful work...
...then went to Yale, which afforded its own peculiar opportunities. While at Yale, for instance, Labaree shared in several abortive attempts to establish a student council, and later participated in the movement to bring the N.S.A. to New Haven (which seems ample preparation for coping with the present term at Harvard...
...first term arguments are interminable. Slowly then, as the weeks pass, these Southerners who were at first so ready to argue acquire a certain resignation. Not that they have capitulated, but rather that they have begun to see the impossibility of convincing their opponents; their opponents learn the same lesson, but perhaps a little slower...