Word: current
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...second argument given for the current plan is the loss in rent revenue that would occur if every empty space in the Houses were filled and vacancies created in the outside dormitories. But the House system is theoretically a key part of a Harvard education. It is hard to deny the benefits of this system to qualified students because of these financial considerations...
Tonight the Housemasters meet to discuss the progress of deconversion. It is their last chance to reverse the current emphasis on depopulating the Houses. Naturally, they are looking forward to a reduction in House totals. But that will come in time as the College decreases in size. The primary consideration now should be to get as many upper-classmen as possible into the House system. This can only be done by encouraging House members to accept new roommates, instead of urging them to deconvert. Until almost all upperclassmen are in the Houses, deconversion is premature...
...Current Harvard grad school regulations allow entertaining until 10 p.m. with the written permission of the proctor...
...night before Duncan leaves for school, Gerald treats him to a fireworks display. After the last flares are gone, Gerald grips the boy's arm and Duncan feels "the current of some deep emotion pass from the man's body to his own." Though unable to give this emotion a name, Duncan senses that he has somehow been soiled by evil. At school, where he feels "as though virtue had gone out of him," he becomes a sneak thief and is expelled...
...addition, Lt. Comm J. Haley, aide to the chief of naval personnel said he did not believe any changes in the current form of the oath are forthcoming...