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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This action on the ticket situation was termed "emergency" by members of the Council, who explained that they thought the service should properly be a function of the Harvard Athletic Association. The HAA is bound to conform with an Ivy League ruling that no ticket prices shall be refunded, but several Council members stated that they considered the clearance service which they are sponsoring this week to be "in the demain of Bingham...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Will Swap Tickets; Bingham Reports on H A A | 10/11/1949 | See Source »

...Association is beginning the new academic season with a heavy schedule of projects that were hatched or discussed at its convention in Urbana, Illinois this summer. The Harvard chapter, which belongs to the Boston area of the New England Region of the NSA, is supposed to perform a dual function. Primarily it is part of the NSA's information exchange set-up, which links the Harvard Student Council with the student governments of all other member institutions. The secondary but much more publicized function is the working out of various projects which are supposed to benefit students both at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA On Trial | 10/6/1949 | See Source »

Secretary Brannan is willing to "do something for beef" and for just about every other farm product in the book (TIME, April 18). With the Hope-Aiken Act set to function in 1950, providing for a lower and more flexible level of price supports, he has advanced a counterplan to commit Agriculture to a permanent policy of high price pegs. The Brannan plan brushes aside any idea of a gradual reduction of price props, and substitutes much higher support prices pegged to an "income support standard." This would guarantee farmers an income as fat as the one they have enjoyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Wild Harvest | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...with day time classes in the Holy Scripture, philosophy, Church History, Greek, and Latin. It was around this time that the Harvard and Radcliffe Catholics Clubs stopped using the Center as a meeting place. They claim that, as a school, the Center no longer fulfills its original function...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: St. Benedict's Explains Its Doctrine | 9/27/1949 | See Source »

...T.U.C., like unions everywhere, had been built up as a fighting force to win what its members wanted. Under a capitalistic sytem, one of unionism's functions was to limit the power of owners and managers. Had it a similar function in the socialist (or socialoid) society which unionism had created? T.U.C. delegates last week fumbled around for answers, found none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Toward the Ice Age | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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