Word: overflow
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...meet in an informal setting. These beautiful, frequently wood-paneled rooms are the sort of places Harvard plasters over its brochures, enticing naïve applicants with dreams of endless intellectual discourse in quaint, posh settings. In reality, however, most Junior Common Rooms are not hangout havens, but overflow rehearsal space. They are usually booked well in advance by homeless a cappella groups and roving theater productions...
Organizers called the gathering a success as it generated an overflow turnout—speeches were simulcast to 500 attendees who couldn’t fit in the main auditorium...
...national security adviser, bowed out of the Harvard Book Store event only days before he was supposed to discuss his new book, “Does America Need a Foreign Policy? Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century.” He was to field questions from an overflow audience...
...biggest draw of the five-day conference was a lecture series on Friday night by Peter Kreeft, professor of philosophy at Boston College, and Fritz Schaeffer, professor of chemistry at the University of Georgia, filling Science Center B lecture hall, with an overflow crowd in lecture hall...
Another option would be to open up more space for students in the overflow River housing of the DeWolfe and Claverley complexes. Much of this space is currently occupied by faculty. Yet Faculty have access to cars and can easily live off-campus--undergraduates cannot. It makes more sense for this prime campus space to be occupied by students and to assign faculty to subsidized housing more removed from the heart of Harvard. Converting these buildings into spaces wholly devoted to student living and folding them into the existing House system would also end their status as ambiguous halfway houses...