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...widened avenue will have two 36-foot lanes with a five-foot center strip. Footage to widen the 65-foot-wide stretch from Harvard Square to Porter Square will be taken from the sidewalks, DiNatale said...
...broad program of fellowships and grants to colleges intended to widen graduate education facilities...
When Japanese laborers were digging up a hillside to widen a highway a year ago, they unearthed a cache of hundreds of small clay figures. Callously the highway crew smashed the figures into the roadbed, but their foreman told the story at the sake house that night. Soon a delegate of National Museum curators rushed to the spot-too late. Lost: another priceless trove of Haniwa sculpture, the funerary pottery in the form of warriors, horses, shrine maidens, even ducks, monkeys and chickens found in burial mounds of the 3rd to 7th centuries...
...school's graduates. More students have been directed toward two year schools: only six per cent of 1956's graduates went to junior colleges, while in 1957 13 per cent continued their education at a two-year school. The increasing competition to get into college will probably widen further the distribution of schools chosen by seniors and also weaken some of the prestige criteria held by pupils and their parents. In this sense the growing competition may be healthy...
...full force of the CEP's recommendations is carried into practice by the individual departments, the College curriculum will place a greater emphasis on tutorial and independent study, increase the participation of senior Faculty members in tutorial work, and widen the gap between Honors and non-Honors programs. It will require the use of more costly methods of instruction and make greater use of House educational facilities...