Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three general plans of action by the University suggest themselves. 1. The authorities could forbid all undergraduates from taking part in businesses selling services to students. In place of this, laundries and pressing shops would employ men as solicitors on a straight percentage basis. While there are no exact figures on the total income under the present system, it is estimated that such a change as this would not substantially alter the amount earned. 2. The financial affairs of student businesses could be opened to the inspection of University Hall. A bond, similar to the one required of applicants...
...possible methods present themselves. The first is to make a careful check-up of every applicant, recording his scholastic, his athletic, and his social standing. The mass of statistics would then be tabulated, and each college would receive a mathematically exact proportion of the more and the less desirable men. Merely to describe such a scheme is to demonstrate its infeasibility. Not only would an adequate consideration of these three criteria drive the distribution committee to insanity in a week, but there would be innumerable other factors entering in--particular scholastic interests or fraternities, for example--that would throw...
Obviously, then, any attempt to preserve an exact average in a particular year must be abandoned; the other method must be employed; the colleges to be made as equally desirable as possible. To a certain extent this has already been done, in that the masters and fellows are on an equally high plane in each unit. Where there are applications based on the hope of individual work with a particular fellow, they will probably even off and should be granted by the committee. But for the other criteria in the students' minds which are not and can not be equalized...
...statement that Boston habitually permits the discouragement of "universality acknowledged art" is getting to be a tiresome bromide, kept popularly alive by hearsay, especially among those whose hunger for art, universally recognized or not, suddenly rises to an incredible high at the exact moment that the censors slash a play, and troubles them little at other times...
...charged that President Roosevelt's program "tends to lower the American standard of living, creates an artificial scarcity, and works top-heavily in favor of big businessmen and bankers." Declaring that the New Deal aims at "Recovery for the profit system," Professor Ward said it represents "the exact opposite of what liberals, including leaders in the social movement in the churches, have envisaged...