Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this true at Yale? There are two reasons. The first is the appointment policy followed by the Prudential Committee, the standing committee of the Yale Corporation, in the one case in which the facts are known: no card-carrying or de facto Communists will henceforward be admitted to the Yale faculty. The young graduate students and faculty men put it a different way: "There will be no witch-hunts at Yale (quoted from President Charles Seymour), because there will be no witches." What worries the young men is how far the Prudential Committee intends to go with this policy...
...half months ago, the National Student Association's Purchase Card System began operations at Harvard. There was a little preliminary publicity, and cards were on sale for a few days in the dining halls. Ever since, the project has been quietly dying on its feet...
...hardly fair to blame the failure on the plan itself. The NSA's idea--to persuade selected stores to grant discounts to student card-holders in return for the resulting increase in trade--is an ingenious answer to the high cost of learning. It was tried out last year at the University of Buffalo with some success, and has been instituted in 17 other areas all over the country. What with the new tuition hike and the financial pressures of living under the G.I. bill, any good plan for saving deserves a fair tryout...
This it did not get at Harvard. The Purchase Card Committee gave the plan utterly inadequate publicity, acting on the naive assumption that its job was completed with getting the System organized. Partly as a result of the poor publicity only about 550 students bought cards, a pitifully small number in a University of 12,000. Some of the contracted stores are already complaining that their discount has not brought in enough trade to pay for itself...
...separately instead of receiving its usual fixed percentage of the total. In case any of these do unexpectedly poorly, the Council plans to use the usually large unallocated funds as a leveling influence. The well-publicized national charities will appear as a single item at the bottom of the card. Students can fill in the particular charity they want to give...