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...Harvard Memories, the University is faced with another problem of expansion. But this time, it is not one that can be shrugged off by merely raising a roof. School systems throughout the country are overflowing with war and postwar babies. In five years, the advance wave of this torrent will begin pounding at ivied doors. More and more people will want to go to already crowded colleges, and in this demand lies Harvard's problems. It is perhaps the most challenging problem the College has faced in its 318 years: should Harvard expand...
...ultimate answer lies in the third alternative: partial expansion to, perhaps 6000. While an increase of 1500 would soak up only a drop of the torrent, it can be justified on both practical and theoretical grounds...
...unrest remains, bolstered by a continuing barrage of propaganda from the Athens radio. While the British fear the loss of defensive bases, the Greeks dream of the day when Cyprus will be free to unite with them. British consuls have justified the tight controls by firing a torrent of singularly weak arguments at the agitators. It is suggested, for example, that a split with Britain might leave the Greek and Turkish forces in Cyprus to fight out old grudges. Yet the actual figures recorded in the U.N. indicate that over 80 percent of the is land are Greek in language...
Great River could easily have drowned in a torrent of blood, but Horgan's interest in the people and the land is always deeper than any temptation to deal with adventure. There are excellent descriptions of Comanche Indian life, of the cowboy, of frontier towns. But the real triumph of Horgan's book is his own intense love for the Rio Grande country, which he has woven into his fine prose...
...river roll over most of the tea city of Dibrugarh (pop. 23,000), in the hills of Assam. Back on land, he shook off his nervous aides and went striding across rickety bamboo bridges to watch sawmills, temples, schools and homes collapse and vanish into the muddy torrent. Once a great mass of earth crashed down only 20 feet from him, but Nehru was unhurt...