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Five additional dollars per term on the medical and infirmary fee will be the Hygiene Department's first concrete move toward meeting the combined problems of greatly increased costs and a 60 percent larger University, it was announced yesterday by Dr. Arlie V. Bock, chairman of the Hygiene Department...
Normally able to make both ends meet and also have a substantial reserve, the Department has experienced a 72 percent rise in food costs since 1942, and a wage boost of about 100 percent for general help, with raises in the pay and numbers of doctors and nurses scheduled for the near future...
Peace was the sickly hatred Churchill described, and peace was other things: the Colonel Blimpish British mine owner who looked forward to the return of unemployment as a cure for the contagion of absenteeism (sometimes 40 percent) which broke out whenever big sports events nearby attracted his work-weary miners; the farmer (of military age) hopefully sowing his field on which a tank rusted, near Saint-Lô, Normandy (see cut); the profound, silent distrust of eleven-year-old Filomena Carciopoli, of Puzzuoli, Italy, who sullenly concealed her starving seven-month-old sister under a bed so they could...
...overall averages for the various proposals were; 1. Omission of bread at dinner, 78 percent, 2. One glass of milk per meal, 52 percent, 3. No cake with ice cream, 85 percent, 4, Reduction of meat and fish, 61 percent, 5. Desserts at dinner only, 75 percent, and 6. Substitutions for wheat cereals, 78 percent...
...could be utilized during the emergency. The fields close to the Business School would provide ideal sites if drained along the methods established by the University in establishing land for the government units. And it might well to remembered that Tech expects to get no less than 65 percent of its money back in rents, plus a small amount in serap value from its Westgate venture. Certainly an effort of this sort would answer critics of Harvard who claim that the University has defaulted in face of an essential phase of educating the veterans; a worthwhile task even...