Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the 1948 season began, Connie Mack had his usual collection of bargain-basement ballplayers. Last week, to every body's surprise, the A's were leading the league and going like crazy. Even Mr. Mack seemed a little taken aback...
...that because of his age, he might not live to see his building completed. Says he: "If we can create ... a place where young people can meditate on great thoughts, and by that means give the world . . . another Dante, another Shakespeare, another Browning-we will count the cost a bargain...
Professor Katz' official title will be "General Counsel for the European Mission of the Economic Cooperative Administration." He will supervise all legal work under the program, including procuring goods, drawing financial treaties, and seeing that Europe lives up to its side of the bargain...
Tufts plays a close man-to-man style of defense, so the game will probably be a rough one. But when it comes to body-checking, the Crimson quartet of bruising defensemen, Bob Forsythe, Bob Snow, Don Louria, and Jim Graham will probably get the bargain...
Arguments advanced for this issue included the claim that the fee is a bargain, since the same items now cost 'Cliffedweilers $17,00; the assertion that activities would thrive with the all-college backing they now lack; the belief that organizations now dependent on Harvard membership would win new independence; the possibilities of a year book which would chronicle affairs of all four classes instead of one; advantages of a pooled emergency fund for all clubs, publications and groups like Radcliffe; and the ease of collection...