Word: overcrowdedness
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When Albert C. Jacobs, onetime provost of Columbia University, took over as chancellor of the University of Denver in 1949, he found D.U. overcrowded, overextended and musclebound. In four years he slashed away about 300 marginal and vocational courses; he streamlined his departments, earmarked the alumni fund for faculty salaries...
¶In Manhattan, Lawyer Allen Murray Myers, who declared that he would rather "rot in jail" than send his nine-year-old daughter to the overcrowded, dilapidated, 95-year-old Public School 19 (TIME, Jan. 19), won his battle against the board of education. Since Myers' wife is a...
Yet eviction is underway. Thousands of Kikuyus are being bundled into boxcars and shipped to overcrowded reserves, even sitting on car roofs with arms linked so as not to fall off. One transit camp is a barbed-wire enclosure on Nakuru racecourse, where evicted Kukes are huddled together in the...
Where Fronts Meet. Last week, at No. 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, the Huggins scheme was-earnestly debated. There were good arguments for federation: copper-rich Northern Rhodesia needs Southern Rhodesia's coal; both need Negro labor from overcrowded Nyasaland. Even more compelling in Sir Godfrey's eyes...
Hospitals. The hospital outlook is bleak. Many rural areas have none. Mental and TB hospitals are hopelessly overcrowded. Almost as bad, says the commission, is the condition of obsolete hospitals: "It is difficult to practice good medicine in many of these run-down structures, and their weary air is a...