Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...humble hotdog is H.S.A.'s biggest money-maker. One year ago the Stadium Concessions Agency took over food and program sales at football games from an outside professional organization. Sales rose 25 per cent the first year and may go even higher this season. Net profit to the managers and employees of Stadium Concessions reached nearly $10,000, a fifth of the total for H.S.A. as a whole...
...final touch, the Agency has even taught its vendors how to appeal to their Harvard customers. "Get your icecold hotdog here," one was heard to wail, offering a tolerably warm specimen. Then plaintively, "Please, somebody buy this hotdog." And people do. Each sale earns three cents for the hawker, and a penny saved is $50,000 a year...
...liberals working for him, allegedly reaping all sorts of political experience. "It's a new form of patronage," Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. commented recently. "Bill gives people jobs before the election instead of after it." Schlesinger is only one of many University people to endorse Barnes' candidacy; even if there is no such thing as a "Harvard seat," Barnes is certainly the Harvard candidate...
...reinterpretation of the nature of student problems progressed rather imperceptively throughout the fifties. Today the concept of student problems includes issues which affect students of foreign countries in their role as students. The furthest the definition has even been stretched was on the nuclear testing resolution passed by the Twelfth National Student Congress in August. The resolution was tied up with concern for international student issues...
Opponents of NSA have pointed to these very issues, at least semi-political in nature, in claiming that since the college delegates are only vaguely aware of the issues involved they cannot purport to represent even the students at their own schools. The end result of the NSA Congress, the critics maintain, is that policy declarations are made which seem to represent the whole American student population, but actually represent only the personal views of the delegates present...