Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other contemplated changes in the New York-Chicago schedules of the two lines: 1) an increase in the running time of other 20-hr, limiteds to 21 hr.; 2) an acceleration of slower trains to a 21-hr. run; 3) elimination of all extra fares except on the 18-hr, trains...
...commuters, it is believed that a fair cross-section of student opinion has already ben obtained. Although it is too early to make any definite conclusions, it seems that non-residence in Cambridge and exclusion from the Houses are effective bars to participation in sports and other extra-curricula activities...
...local governments. The New Haven authorities have threatened Yale with special legislation to annul the tax-exempt features of its charter, unless the university voluntarily contributes in the present emergency. In view of the fact that Yale has been accused of securing unjust exemptions, the possibility takes on extra force. The university golf-course, according to press reports, has been transformed by academic magic into a botanical gardon. Dormitories and gymnasiums have received the addition of recitation rooms, in order to justify the educational label...
...makes a tour of inspection, sometimes alone, often accompanied by members of his staff. Although squads of about 240 and 100 workmen alternate each day on the work according to the particular work to be done, they will not be able to complete the chapel by Class Day unless extra workers are added...
...newly constructed from top to bottom. This fact, coupled perhaps with the dignity of the Eliot name, was responsible for the extraordinary number of applicants for membership in it. The heads of the House made the most of the opportunity offered. It is probable that even apart from its extra size, Eliot has a slightly larger number both of Dean's List men and of social luminaries. The advantage, however, is not unqualified. The effort to obtain the best "cross-section" of Harvard talent has resulted, perversely enough, in breaking up the House into cliques which do not intermingle enough...