Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blame cannot be fastened on any one faction. Our playwrights have been confused and temporarily caught off base; our critics, perhaps a trifle sterilized by their ancient standards of judgment, could be of more constructive aid; and surely the unions could temper their constricting closed shop policy and allow a few more economically budgeted productions to receive a Broadway showing. This might have aided the Group Theatre, one of the few enterprising endeavors in New York, and kept them alive this past season. And, lastly, the producers might give more unknown playwrights a chance. No playwright of adult stature...
Pleasant news to non-teetotaling Freshmen is the committee's announcement that a license has been obtained to allow beer to be served, and according to Richard McCarthy, chairman, there will be barrels of brew on hand. Cigarettes, tobacco, pretzels, crackers, Coca-Cola and other refreshments will also stock the commissary which the Yardlings will attack after the show...
...undergraduates like the usual group of transients and scholastic delinquents. Students will have to pay five dollars a half course to audit the classes that, during the winter, are open to them free of charge. Intending the summer session as a continuation of the regular college, the University should allow undergraduates their usual auditing privileges. Many will have neither the interest nor the time to attend other courses, but it is a poor plan to restrict students who are interested in a more varied education or who wish to correlate for September divisionals...
...impossible to ship food from America abroad because of the blockade and lack of ships, one vessel with 50 tons of much needed clothing was able to get through to the central office at Marseilles. Famine this year is most severe in Poland and Greece, but the Germans will allow no organizations to work in occupied countries and thus not much can be done...
...Bible-Shakespeare-Ancient Authors examination was instituted some twenty years ago because it was obvious that no student of modern languages should be allowed to graduate from Harvard without reading representative selections from the world's greatest literature. In fact, a considerable number of Faculty members felt and still feel that all men who attend the College should be able to present evidence of having read these classics. Present chemistry and physics concentrators do not know how close they have been to taking the examinations along with the modern language men to prevent their becoming one-sided. Even...