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Despite its original objection that two credits for four years work would discourage ROTC enrollment, the Faculty should make this cut. The program's attraction is still strong, because it not only gives an assured deferment, but also offers the bonus of a commission upon graduation. All agree that a liberal arts college has a duty to turn out leaders in times of military emergency. But it need not make military technical training--so alien to its nature--especially attractive by giving it a heaping share of academic credit. Harvard provides students the opportunity for office training...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arms and The Humanist: II | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...R.A.F. flew in some 50,000 sandbags. U.S. motorized columns raced across Germany's Autobahnen into The Netherlands to lend a hand, while fleets of Flying Boxcars roared in laden with life rafts, serums, and other vital supplies. The Netherlands War Ministry promised each G.I. the same daily bonus (26? and a package of cigarettes) that the Dutch soldiers got for flood relief work, but the offer was turned down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Flood's Wake | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

Results: a broken spring for the bus; a broken leg for the conductor; minor injuries for twelve passengers; a ?10 ($28) bonus to Albert for his quick thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Jumping Bus | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...organization, completely non-profit, is partly patterned upon a system which is highly successful at Princeton. Unlike workers in Nassau, however, workers here will not only get a flat dollar an hour rate, but, if there are any profits, get a proportionate bonus at the end of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Will Sell Sandwiches, Milk In Houses Today | 1/6/1953 | See Source »

...Gasperi's electoral reform bill proposed that the winning party or coalition of parties be given a bonus of additional seats, sufficient to give it at least 63% of the total number of seats, enough for a working majority. If passing the bill was important to the Demo-Christians, defeating it was imperative to the Reds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Battle on the Floor | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

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