Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kappa is this year increasing the number of men elected from each class from 45 to 65. This change restores the old proportion of Phi Beta Kappa men per class that has been lost in recent years through the growth of the college, and in the future it will allow Phi Beta Kappa to take roughly a tenth from each class instead of a thirteenth or a fourteenth as has lately been the custom...
Investigations of the Phi Beta Kappa elections for the past five years yield in part the statistical results given above, which are of some significance in view of the change this year. As will readily be seen, the old quota of 45 did not allow all of the Magna and Summa men in a class to be elected to the society. The new quota of 65 however, gives opportunity for the election of all these high honor men, in an ordinary year, since in only one year in the past five have the Magnas and Summas awarded exceeded...
...shorter than the Providence, New London road, and eight miles less than by Worcester and Springfield, avoids the heavy through traffic on the two main routes, and runs through no large cities, such as Worcester or Providence. The road is well paved throughout, and has sufficiently easy curves to allow for fast traveling almost the whole...
...concert will be given at 8.16 o'clock in Woolsey Hall, and will finish in time to allow the audience to attend the various dances which are being held in New Haven that evening...
...Raskob took his flayings in good part but gave no. immediate sign of retiring. Without reference to his own plans he proposed that the Democracy start the groundwork of its 1932 campaign at once. "The most glaring example of our lack of efficiency," he said, "is that, we allow a political organization to lie practically dormant over such a long period. ... I see no reason why we can't function right through the whole four years...