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...unsuspecting waiter would be reprimanded or sacked. The board, employed ten such male spies, paid each $300 annually, plus allowances for their "business meals" (about a dozen weekly). Last week the board, to the relief of every drinker in Sweden, decided-for reasons of economy, it said-to abolish the hated snoops...
Lunden added that, as in the past, students could purchase a ticket for the Yale game at New Haven at half price. Each student is also entitled to an extra seat at the full price. His statement ended speculation at the College that the new free ticket system would abolish the usual discount for a contest at Yale...
...sugar strike that shut down the colony's main industry. When that petered out, they brought in a bill to force recognition of their Red-led union, and denounced "that man Savage" in open-air rallies. And when Janet Jagan drafted a party declaration demanding that London abolish the governor's control powers and other constitutional checks, the Colonial Office apparently decided that it was faced with a determined Red plot to seize full power...
...fraternities and sororities at Ohio. Only a third of the college belongs and at a state supported school, some say, private fraternities and sororities have no place at all. But some of the houses are almost as old as the school itself, and there is no inovement to abolish them. The yearly cost of an organization is around $180, which may not seem like much, but when considered in the light of the low income farmilies which send students to Ohio, and the cost of the college itself--$320 a year--may often prove prohibitive to students...
Yale may soon abolish or radically change its present system of freshman and sophomore courses...