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Last week's battle with Holy Cross was ostensibly one of Harvard's home games. Students were offered three grades of tickets at about 40 percent of box-office price. Thus, while many of the best seats in the Garden were empty, Harvard fans witnessed the play form directly behind one of the baskets or in small groups mixed in with the rafters and lighting fixtures. If Harvard athletics is to gain local support without incurring the wrath of its best fans, some plan akin to the cheering-section arrangement should be worked out. A single block of seats, located...
...their failure to bring the problem squarely before school authorities, Professor Slichter advances a program of action which sets as its goal a minimum salary of $6,000 a year for full professors, and wages of $5,000 and $3,500 for associates and assistants respectively, and a 50 percent increase above the 1940 scale for all three groups, a rise which be suggests be boosted to 75 percent within the next three years. "There is no prospect at the moment," he states, "that the cost of living in the immediate future will settle below 40 percent above...
After nearly four hours of debate, the Assembly approved the blueprint for the refugee organization and its $160,000,000 budget by a vote of 30 to 5. Before it becomes effective, the constitution must be ratified by 15 nations or enough countries to contribute 75 percent of the total budget, in the event the first 15 are small contributors...
Rally chairman Stanley G. Karson '48 struck out last night at the claim of the National Association of Real Estate Boards that tenants would accept a 15 percent increase if they received a year's lease, declaring that "the hardships which such an increase would work on untold numbers of citizens, especially home-hungry veterans, and the blow that lifting of controls would deal to the entire veterans housing program are of such magnitude as to demand immediate response from everyone. This response must be clearly evident Tuesday night at Rindge Hall...
...want to avoid asking for a continuation of the draft," Petersen remarked, pointing out that the present policy calls for a stable, 100 percent volunteer, regular army but that enlistment recruiting had fallen off sharply in the last few months and that many one year enlistments were ending...