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...spite of the fact that the budget has had to be cut over 18 percent, the Council apparently sees no reason why it should not continue to expend a total of $140 this year for the postage and printing of balloting cards which experience has shown less than half the class respond to. Out of the 760 ballots sent out last year to members of the Class of 1933, only 372 were returned. If there were ever an appropriate moment to abolish such an outworn system, if only for economy's sake, it is the present. The Council has refused...
...violent session the Cambridge School Committee, in spite of Mayor Russell, recently voted to request the faculties of Harvard, M.I.T., Radcliffe, and Boston University to contribute ten percent of their salaries to the needy of the city of Cambridge. This proposal was made on the ground that the four colleges, owning $200,000,000 worth of untaxed property in Cambridge, are burdening the city unduly, and should contribute in some way to its support...
...occasional conference with students who are qualified to do special tutorial laboratory work in the Cruft Laboratory field, thus supplementing the work of their regular tutors. This type of tutorial work is decidedly interesting, and it is not primarily concerned with the general examinations. In should estimate that 20 percent of the student body are qualified to do this sort of work in some field. The other 80 percent are interested only in passing the general examination with the least possible effort...
...attempted. Everett Marshall and Evelyn Herbert sing some grand songs by Romberg and Hal Skelly still seems to know how to handle his women. With just a little something to do and more help from the chorus "Melody" might uphold a real ideal and, incidentally, be about fifty percent better...
...Flynn reveals, the greater part of the money was loaned to large banks. Shortly after Mr. Dawes had resigned as the head of the R.F.C. ninety millions were loaned to his bank in Chicago. Mr. Hoover immediately defended this action; it would help smaller banks. Eighty percent of the neighborhood banks in the whole city of Chicago already have closed...