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Instead of announcements of individual reviews, tutoring school advertising in monthly publications has supported tutoring as an institution. In an advertised appeal to parents, in the Hasty Pudding program, Wolff's emphasized the "difficult problems of adjustment in college. . . Guidance may avert more serious maladjustments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Requests Other Student Publications Stop Tutoring Ads | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

University Hall officials confirmed in a written contract yesterday the preferential shop and higher wage agreement, conceded kitchen workers two weeks ago to avert a general strike in the dinings halls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIGNED CONTRACT AGREES ON TERMS FOR DINING HALLS | 3/30/1939 | See Source »

...crisis. But they will, if they continue their half-hearted resistance, encourage their potential enemies to drive on to the end of the rope. Conversely, a truly positive stand, coupled with an honest recognition of the necessity of peaceful change, can-or at least offers the best chance to -avert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOCKING THE BARN DOOR . . . | 2/3/1939 | See Source »

Said Mrs. Bijur last week: "I just know these people, and even though they are poor they are right. I am helping to avert a revolution in this country by feeding them. What we need to end labor strife is more religion, more charity and a greater obedience to the will of God. ... Six more of the strikers' wives are pregnant, and it looks as if I will have quite a hospital bill by summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Tenants' Revolution | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...Gill, Elephant third baseman, was injured in the last inning of the nightcap when he collided with Ernie Sargeant, Leverett third baseman. It was not till the last inning that the Bunnies managed to avert a whitewash by scoring their lone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUTERS, ELEPHANTS TRIUMPH IN BASEBALL | 12/1/1938 | See Source »

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