Word: easier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rather closely associated with the hospitality end of the Phillips Brooks House service, is the work of making easier the task of the student of limited means. In this connection, the Association, through the Graduate Secretary, cooperates with the Employment Bureau of the University in aiding such men to obtain paid social service work. It also maintains a Text book Loan Library of about 4,500 books which have been contributed by students. These books may be borrowed for the year by any student for the sum of five cents--a deposit of twenty-five cents a book being required...
...Observatory. Its latitude is North 42 degrees, but for simplicity let us call the latitude of our Observatory 45 degrees, or just half way between the pole and the equator. This is about the latitude of Montreal, and the conditions are much the same, and the quantities will be easier to remember. At latitude 45 degrees, the north celestial pole is at an altitude of 45 degrees above the northern horizon. From this pole to the equator is naturally 90 degrees, making 155 degrees: and since it is 10 degrees from any point of the horizon through the zenith...
...sensational articles in the New England Courant. Aged 17, the apprentice printer and anonymous author of the articles runs the Courant's circulation up to a dizzy 40, sorely vexing the Rev. Cotton Mather. His brother, out of jail, jealous, beats him. He quits long-nosed Boston for freer, easier Philadelphia, where his articles have excited sympathetic comment...
...accomplished their task-the "public's" men siding with those of the workers, but not in all details of their demands. Said the dissenters, Employers William Ayer Baldwin and Robert V. Massey, in effect: "The physical improvements which the railroads have instituted the past few years make railroading easier and safer than theretofore. Eastern roads earned on the average 5.13% upon their investments last year, 2.76% in 1921 and 5.74% in 1916. This wage increase will detract from these meagre dividends and repel investors." The decision means that $4,000,000 must be deducted from the Pennsylvania Railroad...
Announcement in this edition of the CRIMSON of the prizes offered jointly by the Student Council and the CRIMSON for the soundest suggestions for improvement of the eating conditions as outlined in the editorial of yesterday morning should inspire definite, constructive thought on the matter. It is vastly easier to find fault with the status quo than to remedy...