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...Canaday Hall project was motivated by a different kind of overcrowding. In October 1971, President Bok announced a plan by which the University would move from a 4:1 ratio of men to women to a 2.5:1 ratio, substantially adding to Radcliffe enrollment while keeping Harvard class size fairly stable. Beginning with the Class of 1976, Radcliffe enrollment was to be increased from 315 a class, to about 450, and Harvard class size dropped from 1200 to about 1150. The Bok plan, in sum therefore, called for an increase of about 10 undergraduates a year. In fact, Harvard Admissions...
Because the ratio improvement is being carried out through an increase in overall enrollment, the University was faced with an immediate need for housing. Harvard's response was to purchase the Hotel Continental, on Garden Street. Half of the hotel's space was renovated, and turned into an addition to the Radcliffe Houses in order to accommodate the initial increase of about 100 students. This year, the entire hotel will be used by undergraduates, in order to accommodate the second increase...
...critical point. This cracking creates many tiny cavities in the water-saturated rock. That slows the passage of P (pressure) waves, which travel faster through liquid-filled cracks. Another kind of seismic wave, the S (shear) wave, however, is less affected by the newly opened cracks; thus the usual ratio of P-to S-wave velocity drops sharply. Then, as ground water gradually seeps into the new cracks, the ratio returns to normal. But the water increases pressure within the rock, causing one wall of the fault to slide along the other. It is this slippage that creates the shock...
...under the leadership of Representative Paul Rogers of Florida, has passed a $415 million training and fellowship bill that is also expected to win Senate approval. The House Appropriations Committee is attempting to restore all NIH items to or above the 1972 funding level and re-establish the old ratio between new and ongoing research grants. If Congress succeeds in saving these programs, it can still prevent both the lights in the laboratories and the luster of American medicine from being dimmed...
...male-female ratio that President Bok announced two years ago has resulted in an increase of about 300 students. The new dorm, which will be called Canaday Hall after Ward M. Canaday '07, the Toledo, Ohio oil magnate who donated the $3 million building fee, will lessen the crowded housing conditions in the Yard and the Houses...