Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-five thousand dollars spread out among some six thousand undergraduates is hardly a gigantic sum of cash. Independent, uncoordinated, hap-hazard drives for assorted charitable organizations quite probably could extract that much from the College without untoward effort. Yet the Student Council, acting as agent for a long list of such worthy agencies, has been able to garner just a bit more than half that amount, despite a two-month campaign that will end on Sunday. Usually, seven-dollar-per-man pledges were signed by the great majority of men at registration in the fall, the money collected...
...last ditch effort to collect the $5,000 of Service Fund pledges still at large, the Student Council will post canvassers in the House dining halls and the Union today through Sunday. University coupon book tickets will be accepted...
...during the early life of the nascent states in an armed, locally recruited militia. In the event of an Arab uprising, any native constabulary would prove hopelessly inadequate to keep peace among the warring factions. With this in view, the U.N. cannot neglect the possibility of a concerted Arabian effort to crush the new Jewish state. By failing to provide an effective security program the U.N. opens the door for bitter civil...
...once shocked the world with the percussive rhythms of his Rite of Spring is a great respecter of convention. Actually, wrote Stravinsky, "the more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free. If everything is permissible to me, the best and the worst, then any effort is inconceivable. . . ." The anarchic modern composer has become "a monster of originality, inventor of his own language, of his own vocabulary. ... So he comes to the point of speaking an idiom without relation to the world that listens...
...idea that every effort to draw the man both intelligent and brawny to the College is not necessarily under way fails to penetrate. "I can't believe that your alumni keep their hands off athletics. They don't at my school...