Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfortunate fact that it is usually impossible for sincere believers in a cause to master an unbiased, judicious view of the situation of which they are a part. On one side lies emotional fanaticism, on the other, indecision. The Scrubwomen affair has provided fuel for much vari-coloured fire which includes the extremely red, the chronic critic of established authority, the opportunist with a personal grudge, and the sincere knight errant of the wronged...
...chairman of 'The News': Now that the Harvard house-cleaning affair has faded from the public notice, and the scrubwomen have been safely objected, I think it is time that Yale consider a certain kindred situation. The maids in the dormitories here receive $8.75 a week. They work from 8 to 1 on week days and from 9 to 1 on Sundays, so that their average is slightly more than 25 cents an hour. (It is surprising how well off the Harvard scrubwomen were...
...colleges entered Harvard is favored to win the university competition, with Boston College, Technology, and Northeastern battling for the runner-up position. All best performances in the 30 events of the meet will constitute records for this track and field carnival, which is expected to become an annual affair in the future...
Said he: "It is simply that all of us feel the need of a change. Like it or not, religion to a student is an intensely private affair and he hesitates to make public his inner attitudes. It is my private opinion that religious associations in college have not sufficiently recognized this normal religious reticence on the part of the majority of men. Fellowship in the more personal and intimate phases of religious experience should be kept for private, congenial groups, where sincerity can be protected from publicity. . . . Many men in college today are ready to offer their help...
...both of which will be in Cambridge. The general public concert will be held in Battle Hall sometime in May, while the last concert of the year will be on May 29; when the musicians will assist at the Freshman Jubilee to give a night club touch to the affair...