Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another change in the House system this year was mentioned in Dean Hanford's statement when he called attention to the plans being made to allow doubling up in the larger suites, thus permitting a larger number of men to live in each House. Coupled with the early withdrawal of many students, this expansion will make it possible for all men in the College to secure rooms in the Houses...
...physically dormant Harvard man is scheduled to begin. Yet with compulsory athletics all but an actuality, the plans and policies of University Hall, the HAA, and the Hygiene Department are still in the amendment stage. The initially iron-clad announcement of supervised conditioning for all has been relaxed to allow credit for geology field trips, team managing, and possibly bicycling as well as for participation in Naval and Military Science, and Varsity and House athletics. Apparently the compulsory athletics plan is no exception to the University's well known policy of act first and plan later. Apparently, too, there...
...Khartoum where Mr. Allen had previously traveled, Mr. Offie endeavored to persuade a British R.A.F. officer who was riding in the plane to West Africa to get off and allow Mr. Allen to ride with us in exchange for a later Pan American passage from Khartoum to Accra which Mr. Allen would purchase for him. This the British R.A.F. officer decided...
Politically, the conference's most important assertion was that many duties now performed by local and national governments "can now be effectively carried out only by international authority." Individual nations, it declared, must give up their armed forces "except for preservation of domestic order" and allow the world to be policed by an international army & navy. This League-of-Nations-with-teeth would also have "the power of final judgment in controversies between nations . . the regulation of international trade and population movements among nations...
...deliberate policy," the No. 2 U.S. aircraft maker announced last week that it is holding its profits down to their "pre-emergency level" in dollars, regardless of the tremendous emergency boom in its business. Explained United Aircraft in its annual report: "It is not in the public interest to allow the greatly increased volume of business resulting from the war effort to increase aggregate profits...