Word: ende
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of the President's pressure at week's end the subcommittee voted 8-to-3 for an amended bill in which the signal thing not amended was the House figure: $725,000,000.* The full Appropriations Committee (Chairman: Senator Glass) promptly approved the subcommittee's handiwork 17-to-7, reported it out to the Senate. There, Senator Adams predicted, "We will probably get the whey beat out of us ... as usually happens when the subcommittee makes an honest effort to economize...
...before he falls into the green pastures of a university. But lo and behold! once alighted he will discover that University Hall urges the mature student, through the general exam and tutorial systems, to see college as another series of jumps, climaxing in one big water hazard at the end. This conception of hurdles, series, and incessant academic strife seems at bottom false, an example of the commercialization of learning, and contrary to the most rational tents of teaching. The student becomes a mere animal running a steeplechase, with the dean's office as jockey; the ideal of individual instruction...
Hormel & Co., still in the van of the parade, last week came out with something brand-new, a "joint earnings plan." During the current fiscal year (ending October 1939) the total of all profits and wages of Hormers Austin plant will be reckoned up. At year's end this theoretical kitty will go 80% to employes, 20% to stockholders. If the employes' 80% fails to cover the pay they have already received, they will get no more. If it more than covers their pay, the surplus will be divided 80-20 until the workers have been given four...
There was little action on the Crimson athletic front over the week-end save for the Varsity and Freshmen pole games and the Y. M. C. A. track meet...
...Crimson cagers packed away their uniforms after the Dartmouth game until the end of the examination period, but all was not quiet along the E. I. L. basketball front over the last weekend...