Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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According to Richard W. Thorpe, business manager of Radcliffe, the work program makes it possible to reduce each student's yearly charge for room and board...
Personal incentive helps run the work system. The work chairmen who are elected or appointed to run the program in each House are rewarded by being exempted from work themselves. In return for this benefit they see to it that students show up to wait at the meal shifts and take bell duty...
There are, however, some flaws in the program. When the work chairmen sign their dorm-mates up for weekly jobs at the beginning of each term, the seniors have first choice. They take the best positions and freshmen get the jobs that are left. The two freshmen who draw the worst numbers are usually assigned to Saturday night bells for the term...
When the work program began in 1942, maids continued cleaning rooms once a week, doing some bell duty and helping out in the dining room. With the second reduction of maid service in the fall of 1949, student workers took over all bell work, more dining room work and complete charge of their rooms...
...Club and Choral Society in a vigorous playing of the Bach Magnificat, and capped the evening with a rousing, rafter-knocking performance of the Fifth Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovitch. The Orchestra members proved that inspired, as they were last night, they can do a fine job with a difficult program...