Word: trust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge landlord occupies an enviable position. Because apartments convenient to the University are at a premium, he is in a position to name his price, and to pick and choose tenants from a swarm of applicants. Last year, for example, the Harvard Housing Trust received 2944 inquiries, whereas 874 apartments were offered...
Moreover, many of these apartments are unsuitable for student living; and it is only the severe shortage which encourages landlords to offer them. Despite the acknowledged scarcity, many apartments remain on the Housing Trust list for months. An example of this is an apartment on Bigelow Street--a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen. No children are allowed; the rent is $125 a month...
...burden of providing adequate housing for the married students falls upon the Harvard Housing Trust, which has developments in Shaler Lane and Holden Green. These are attractive, low-rent apartments. A two-bedroom unit rents for $75 monthly; three bedrooms, $90; and a four-bedroom apartments...
...only accommodate one-seventh of the demand. The remainder of the married graduate students is forced to devise expedients. Everybody finds something. Some live in trailers; others take big apartments and rent rooms. Often, two couples share a small apartment while they wait for an opening at the Housing Trust. The length of time on the waiting list is largely a matter of luck. For some, it is a matter of two or three weeks; others wait months in cramped quarters. Mrs. F. K. Patterson, assistant director of the Harvard Wives, says that married students are generally "good sports about...
...made to understand what death is, why their father is "sleeping" but will never awake to tease them, or sing to them. Mary no less then they, must become more "grown-up" and realize what this death will mean. She once said her children were "brought up to trust older people when they tell (them) something. . . ." But she had promised Catherine and Rufus the night of Jay's death that he would be home when they awoke...