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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recommendation for such an affair came from the Student Council. I presented my plan, previously backed by the Crimson Key Society, to the Council to obtain student opinion. After the presentation of my plan, the Council took a straw vote and decided that there was a need to expand the Freshman Orientation week, which the Key is currently sponsoring. But they voted down my idea of replacing the Freshman Smoker and having this instead. Perhaps in place of the Smoker, the Freshman Jubilee could be moved up into the slack period in February and thus stop the competition...
...interruption was as welcome as a short snort at sundown. All day the Council of Europe, meeting in Strasbourg last week, had been debating Europe's chronic dollar deficit, and at length Britain's Scottish-born Robert Boothby took the floor: "We can expand, I think, the export of certain specialties to the U.S. . . In this respect my own country is rather fortunate. In Scotland we manufacture the highest quality tweeds and we make the highest quality whisky, the best whisky in the world...
Dollar Hoard. Avery is tucking into his "bank" every possible dollar in preparation, for the depression which he has confidently predicted for the last five years. When & if the depression comes, Avery will expand. He figures that he will get much more then for his dollars (but he has overlooked the fact, as Chicago bankers like to point out, that his hoard of dollars is worth much less now than five years...
Mundheim, co-chairman of the social service committee, completed arrangements after an hour's conference with the Superintendent of the Home. Present plans call for six volunteers to be connected with the program but it is hoped that, if met with success, it will be possible to expand its size in the future...
...foundation's first step was a modest one-$6,000 to start boys' clubs in five of the schools. Soon it began to expand. It started buying up vacant lots for playgrounds, set up a Health Center where any child under 14 could get a free examination. On the advice of the late Father Flanagan of Boys Town, it started a "Big Brother" program to provide volunteer "fathers" and "brothers" to 500 boys a year. It also set up 26 "Stepping Stone Clubs," where girls can gather and learn about everything from making a bed to making...