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...vital point, Mr. Slater-Without the active help of the alumni, most private universities would go bankrupt. Now the need of money is something that brings real unanimity of action. A university administration can't run without money, and they want to run. There are two sources they can tap: one is the government, the other the alumni...
...line lost money from the start. Although Braniff bought planes and expanded north to tap the rich traffic at Chicago, Kansas City and Denver, he kept right on losing money. By 1933 he was ready to write off commercial aviation as a bad investment. But he changed his mind a year later when he won his first Post Office mail contract for the Chicago-Dallas route. Thanks mostly to that, by 1935 his line was in the black and he was ready to start expanding again-this time to the south...
...every recoverable scrap Jefferson ever wrote, from his state papers and his travel notes down to his jottings and essays on the scores of subjects which interested him, from the Anglo-Saxon language to recipes for macaroni and ice cream. Already, Editor Boyd has over 50,000 items on tap from more than 425 sources, and more are trickling in all the time...
...since 1934 when the junior class boycotted the proceeding but not the societies has anti-Tap Day feeling been so strong. Criticism has centered around the open selection of juniors before their classmates, the complete ignorance by those tapped of what is involved, and the lack of cooperation among senior societies to work out a better solution...
...Bones man, has expressed his liking for a hands-off administration policy, other university higher-ups as well as many secret society men outside Bones have been concerned about the problem. When a dozen Torch and Aurelian Honor Society juniors drew up a statement last week deploring present Tap Day procedure and urging an inter-society council to work out a solution, one administration official sent copies of the statement to powerful society alumni representatives...