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Curiously enough, N.S.A. was conceived in Europe. At the height of the war, a handful of exiled European students and scholars met in London. Seeking some machinery that would help insure peace, the laid the groundwork for an International Union of Students. The need for a nation-wide organization that would faithfully represent, students of this country in such an international unit resulted in N.S.A...
Peirce and his committee met yesterday after their appointment to start arrangements for a fund-raising campaign to support the project. Projected tasks of the group will be to arrange military permits and visas from European governments for the Seminar members and faculty, and lay the organizational groundwork in this country...
...Forge Shop. Harvester has come a long way since 1831, when Cyrus Hall McCormick invented his reaper in the forge shop of his Virginia farm and laid the groundwork for Harvester's greatness. Cyrus McCormick plugged his reapers with written testimonials, sold them on the installment plan ($30 down, $90 on terms). In 1847 he built a three-story brick factory in Chicago. By the time he died in 1884, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. was one of the largest in the field. Even after it became the International Harvester Co. 18 years later, through a merger with...
Declaring the organizational groundwork at an end, Weld put out a call for "men of ability not otherwise connected with activities. We want the people who don't ordinarily try out for competitions, but who are interested in specific project...
...College is to blame only for the continual feebleness of its attempts to lay groundwork for the housing future. When February rolls around and rooms in and out of the Houses empty, a semblance of standardized priority rating should confront the applicant. The Student Council-AVC housing committee-which by the College's own claim did yeoman work in investigating commuter hardship cases-should be brought into the confidence of those making allocations. Just as the looser critics of the housing powers-that-be could well lend a patient car to the full scope of the issue, so those...