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...advisable to substitute a blanket compulsory charge for the use of athletic facilities in place of the present fees-for-use system...
...common knowledge that the Athletic Association suffered a considerable loss in income during the past football season, and the proposal of such a fixed fee will be seen by many as an attempt to force the students to make up the deficit. However, if, for example, a $15 blanket fee were levied on all undergraduates, adding in the neighborhood of $10,000 to the H.A.A. coffers, it would not only have precedent but also weighty arguments in its favor...
Yale and Princeton require all their undergraduates to pay $20, directly or indirectly, for the use of athletic facilities, while Harvard, on the other hand, has always charged only those men who use its facilities. A blanket fee at Harvard, which would incidentally get rid of some of the present red tape, would induce many of the men, who do not now exercise, to utilize the recreational opportunities which they have hitherto for one or another reason chosen to ignore or avoid. In particular a number of the Freshmen, who, after taking their year of free compulsory exercise, balk...
...issue nearly 2,000,000 new shares of stock. Chief among North American's assets is a transport system covering the Atlantic seaboard below New York, joining Avco's transcontinental line at Atlanta and meeting its Boston-Montreal sector at Newark. Integrated, the network would blanket the East and South. But whatever the merits of the deal, its effect would be the reduction of the Cord share in total Avco stock from...
...Petrolle weakened with fatigue, Canzoneri exhibited bravado. He dropped his hands and stuck out his jaw, moving it just in time to make his opponent miss. Petrolle won the seventh round and shook Canzoneri with a desperate right in the 15th. Then he wrapped himself in his Indian blanket while waiting for three judges to vote the decision, naturally and unanimously, to Canzoneri...