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Commenting on the revival of the annual elocution contest Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, stated last week that the five cash prizes to be awarded this year will exceed the usual sums, as a result of the surplus afforded by funds unused during...
...comes to college with what amounts to an $1100 scholarship; another three or four hundred dollars per school year is all that he needs to meet his minimum expenses. Since most veterans will finish college in well under four years, the total of necessary loans does not exceed a moderate amount...
...alternatives to be presented at House meetings will be 1) the council shall be completely elective, though non-council members may be committee chairmen, or 2) the Council may by a two thirds vote appoint undergraduates to membership, providing such appointments shall not exceed five or some other figure yet to be stipulated...
Penalties for murder and rape in Soviet Russia rarely exceed ten years' imprisonment, because personal crimes are considered there as mere "hangovers from a bourgeois past," John Hazard, professor of Law at Columbia University's Russian Institute and U. S. Government adviser, declared yesterday at the Law School Forum in Langdell Court...
...prime reason for the Government's decision was that supplies far exceed expectations. There was practically the same amount of natural rubber available this year (975,000 tons) as in 1939 (990,000 tons). Estimates for 1947: between 1,112,000 and 1,412,000 tons. But another reason was that Britain has been losing money on its state trading. The Government bought thousands of tons of rubber in Malaya at 23.6/ a pound, thought rubber was scarce enough so it could keep the price pegged at this level. But the high price brought out so much rubber that...