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Close on the heels of its recent liberalization of the inter-House dining situation, the University announces today a substantial twelve percent reduction in House Plan room rates for the coming academic year. The news will surprise not only members of the University, but outsiders as well: for it comes at a time when it might least be expected. There is small doubt that the move was necessary from the student point of view; the $40 average rise in room rents that accompanied the inauguration of the House Plan in 1931 was hardly compatible with the restrictions which had already...
...business school graduates this may be explained by the greatly increasing per cent of the population with such training. Two thirds of the leaders in the survey were without college education although the percentage of college men holding high positions in the largest corporations was greater than the percent of college men in the group as a whole. Men who entered college but did not graduate comprised 13 percent of the leaders in Professor Taussig's list. Men of exceptional ability apparently reached their goal with or without the advantages of education or inherited wealth...
...last summer to consider means of reducing the large deficits from various departments, of which that of the library is the largest, being over three times as great as next non-self-sustaining item, the upkeep and care of grounds. It was found that an economy of ten percent could be made in all departments without cutting either wages or salaries. In the Library this could be effected only by maintaining shorter hours, with a saving of $20,000 in the cost of lighting, heating, and the graduate student desk attendants. It was clear that money given for the Chapel...
...recent Phillips Brooks House report on the relations of the commuters to the college showed that 36 percent of the upperclassmen in the group take part in college athletics. According to the report 31 per cent of the remainder would like to share in intramural sports if a convenient opportunity were provided. Theoretically, any man not a House-resident can play on one of the Rambler teams in the intramural league games. Probably, however, the organization of Brooks House teams as regular contestants in the inter-House sports would make it easier for commuters to share in athletics. It would...
...recent Phillips Brooks House report on the relations of the commuters to the college showed that 36 percent of the upperclassmen in the group take part in college athletics. According to the report 81 per cent of the remainder would like to share in intramural sports if a convenient opportunity were provided. Theoretically, any man not a House-resident can play on one of the Rambler teams in the intramural league games. Probably, however, the organization of Brooks House teams as regular contestants in the inter-House sports would make it easier for commuters to share in athletics. It would...