Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once again, the seven Masters and Dudley Senior Tutor are faced with the necessity of finding a use for the new grant given them by the University from Ford Foundation funds. The grant has been greeted by some Masters as the most valuable contribution for the Houses since President Lowell, as Reuben Brower has said, while others have wondered fitfully whether they could find enough projects to use...
...more widely beneficial use of the funds was the plan of inviting renowned men to visit the House for several days, dining and speaking with students frequently during their stay. This plan, if men in the Houses take advantage of it, is worthwhile. Unfortunately, in some cases in which distinguished visitors have been invited to speak, students have shied away from the table at which they were sitting, or stayed away from gatherings at which they spoke. Leverett House, for example, invited several important speakers for its 25th Anniversary Dinner last year, and found that few people bothered to attend...
This is only a suggestion, put forward to prevent a whittling away of the Ford money for small projects of limited benefit, and to prevent also several wasted visits from important men. The grant should be used to provide for the greatest benefit possible for the greatest amount of time. The money should not scare the Houses, but should encourage them to plan carefully before they put it into use...
...cyclists said that they will not start or stop their vehicles "underneath the Houses" after 11:30 p.m.; that they will have no "excessively raucous or wild operation of motorcycles at any time;" and use "resaonable" courtesy when operating their machines...
When the new House opens in 1959, it will have only 200 members because of the use of Mather by Leverett. Bundy said that he felt it was better for the eighth House to begin with less than its full complement of 350 students...