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...dissolved their ties with the University. Their affiliation with the "Harvard family" is tenuous when compared to that of any student. To make the B.S.O. Sanders tradition meaningful, therefore, the Administration should prune from the subscribers list, people who are no longer attached to the University. It should then allot the extra seats, not to the most "eligible" persons applying for season's subscriptions, but on a "rush" basis to the first students who show up before each concert. In this way, Harvard music-lovers would have at least some chance of sharing in the fine tradition that they have...
...suggest that it is the key to integration. "Let them play o the house teams," one Dean said, "and they will find out the advantages of the non-resident house membership." At present, however, such a move would probably divide the feeling of unity that encourages the commuters to allot the extra time for sports. "I like the idea of teaming it up with guys who live home like I do," a starter on the hockey squad said. "In a house, win or lose, I'd feel just another nobody...
...month ago the U.S. decided that things could go on this way no longer. The U.S. held up wage payments in hwan to Korean employees of the U.N. forces (a more than $1,500,000-a-month payroll). Moreover, the U.S. refused to allot any more oil to South Korea unless it was paid for at 310 to $1. When Rhee balked at this, fishing boats stayed in port, buses ground to a halt, some 300 factories closed down for lack of fuel, and seven desperate Koreans, trying to tap a U.S. pipeline for gasoline, were killed in an explosion...
...always been able to allot at least two sections to graduate students in the past," Lunden explained. "But the combination of free undergraduate tickets and the quota to Yale make seating graduate students virtually impossible...
Republican candidate Allot defeated the Democrat's Carrol. Carrol conceded just after 4 a.m., Boston time...