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...about 25 per cent in room and board expense, thus making an approximate cost of $1,000 for room, board, tuition and books for the seven months of school from January to August. A limited amount of financial assistance will be available to those men who are unable to defray all expenses from their own resources. This assistance includes various jobs about the School, in the Dining Halls and on the grounds, as well as the School loan Fund which is available to properly qualified students...
...useful purpose. Meanwhile students are forced to hire costly garages or run the risk of an expensive and annoying appearance in court. The land could be filled in, levelled off with cinders, and turned into a satisfactory parking space at a very nominal cost. A small charge, sufficient to defray the original outlay and to provide for the up-keep might well be charged those who kept their cars there. Near to three of the Houses, there is no doubt that the undergraduates would be glad...
...Amherst which was compelled to find its way home by the light of uncertain kerosene while the college man enjoyed the mellow light of gas. Perhaps the climax of their attempts at home rule came, however, when a determined bloo passed a bill calling for an appropriation sufficient to defray building a covered walk between Amherst and Smith. No evidence of this proposed boon to mankind a visible today, but the measure carried its own marks of perpetually since the outraged townspeople, in session assembled during the summer vacation, summarily--and the students claimed unconstitutionality--deprived the latter...
...Baker jumped in his Chevrolet coach, drove 40 miles to make a speech on "the finer things in citizenship." First issue of the Transcript after the sale urged its readers to use the same tactics in "the next round with the octopus." Editor Baker is campaigning for funds to defray legal expenses for 300 other water-rate strikers. Invited by the water company, after two denials, to attend a rate conference, Editor Baker refused to accept the settlement offer, has been barred from all future meetings. Meanwhile Editor Baker holds proxies for almost all the Transcript...
...excellent majesty and most gracious sovereign, we Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects in the Legislative Council and Assembly of Newfoundland, humbly approach Your Majesty praying that whereas in the present emergency Your Majesty's island of Newfoundland is unable from its own resources to defray the interest charge son the public debt and whereas the Royal Commission appointed by Your Majesty's warrant bearing the date of the seventeenth day of February 1933 to examine into the future of Newfoundland, has recommended that for the time being and until such time as the island...