Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both the porter and kitchen positions fall into the category of "priority jobs," a system that was instituted experimentally last spring and with which Holt is believed to have disagreed. Monro and Taylor have divided all jobs into two kinds--priority and casual. Priority jobs are roughly defined as those inside and outside the University which will net a student more than $100 a year. Right now most of the 500 priority jobs (300 inside the University, 200 outside) pay between $250 and $400. Some (nightwatchmen and night switch-board operators especially) earn as much...
...casual" jobs are awarded solely on the basis of ability of availability. They encompass such familiar pursuits as baby-sitting, handling odd-jobs around local homes, and shoveling snow. They take in such esoteric--comparatively highly paid--occupations as draftsmen, translators, and entertainers. The entertainment bureau, one of Holt's prides, has been rather curtailed under Taylor...
...casual spectator would have been able to tell what sport was being played Saturday afternoon on the Amherst soccer field unless he had read about it in the papers beforehand. The weather was so miserable that the Harvard-Amherst soccer game, which the Lord Jeffs won, 2 to 0, was reduced to a complete farce...
While I realize that the Dartmouth article was not primarily intended as a piece of art criticism, the casual and untutored comments expressed indicate a lack of critical discipline wholly to be deplored in a thinking community. I suggest that Mr. Savadove would do well to enroll in an introductory course in art history before his college career is over. Sylvan Barnet...
With almost casual candor, Dwight Eisenhower last week restated an old American feeling. The U.S. must support the "legitimate aspirations" of the Moslem world from Dakar to Mindanao, he said, "or else I don't see how we can hold true to our doctrine that we do not want to dominate anyone." Legitimate, of course, was the key word; it did not mean abandoning the Middle East to headlong, irresponsible nationalism. The great colonial powers had long preached that a people has to be emotionally, intellectually and economically ready before it can safely run its own house...