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This, however, does not mean that our delegates sailed knowing in advance that they were going to refuse stabilization. The attitude which they are now stubborn in seems rather to be a sudden shift caused in part by the unexpected results of recent measure. It is difficult to understand why the President should not accept the offer of gold-standard countries who wish to secure our money at the same rate we are waiting for, and why the Federal Reserve is tacitly encouraged to operate in foreign exchange to support the dollar when it obviously cannot influence the franc...
...marking so as to do away with the alphabetical "A. B. C. D. E." grading and to put in its place a system under which students would be arrange as "Good," "Satisfactory," and "University" or simply "Pass" and "Not Pass." Such a system, it is felt, would tend to shift the emphasis away from course grades and be more in conformity with the tutorial system...
...financial and scholastic reasons there may be as much as a 20 per cent change in the House lists, part of which were published in the CRIMSON Wednesday and are continued in today's issue. It is understood that there are always changes, and officials are expecting a greater shift this year than there has been previously. On the first assignment 608 of more than 700 applicants have been accepted...
...normally get $6 for a twelve-hour tour of duty in a hospital ($8 in homes), or 50? an hour. In addition in many hospitals the patient pays a variable amount for his nurse's meals. The experimenting hospitals have put their nurses on three eight-hour shifts a day. One of them pays $5 a shift, or 62 ½?an hour. Patients who must have 24-hour attention pay $15 (instead of $12) a day, plus 75f?for each meal the nurses consume. For hospital patients who require no more than 16 hours of continuous private nursing...
Primary urge for the eight-hour nursing shift is the inestimable desperate need for spreading employment among nurses...