Word: club
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have the proper backgrounds, went to school at Eton and Oxford, served in the Guards or other "good" regiments. But. laments one adman who makes $56,000 a year: "People I grew up with, who have gone into civil service or banking, are members of the Athenaeum or Reform Club by now. I can't get in. I've tried and failed. Most of us have. It's because we have the use of so much money. Having capital is all right, but unlimited expenses are looked down...
...that had been colorful and lively went grey and quiet. The Race Course became a sedate People's Park; the famed Shanghai Club, where British merchants had dozed over month-old copies of the London Times, a seamen's club; Blood Alley, where sailors used to break each other's heads in chauvinistic brawls, resounded only to the click of chopsticks in cooperative noodle shops. Bars and dance halls and opium dens closed down; prostitutes and beggars vanished from the newly swept streets...
...realize that the University must economize wherever it soundly can if it is ever to keep costs under control. But to reduce sports to club status just to save what is really a mere pittance is false economy. By degrading lacrosse the University saved $5,000. Was this sum, almost an undistinguishable digit in the multi-figured budget of the University, worth all the furor and ill-feeling that resulted? This $5,000, twice the $5,000, and I wager seven times this $5,000 could be saved if some efficient person delved into the general workings of buildings...
Reactions from varsity athletes indicated yesterday that the H.A.A.'s further reduced budget fits the teams like last year's uniforms. Several athletes noted that the smaller sports have been so hurt by their reduction to club status that their very existence as organized sports has been gravely threatened...
...skiing team was also reduced to club status in last year's budget slash. Captain James H. Breasted, III '60 claimed his team did not need much, only $500 to $1000. 'It's illogical to take away so little from a budget of $700,000," he added...