Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seem adding insult to injury to regard the problems of men who seek to complete the college course in three years. Such men do, nevertheless, exist, and should be considered as well as their more usual classmates. The college does this minority an injustice by piling an extra course upon their already heavily burdened shoulders, and by so doing, increases their problems disproportionately. This extra course rule, to all intents and purposes, means that the three-year man must carry six courses in one year and five for two years, or else go to summer school. If the ordinary requirements...
Many undergraduates have urgent reasons for wishing to do the normal, allotted work as quickly as possible. In their paths is thrown the stumbling block of the extra rule, without apparent regard for the most ordinary principles of justice. A flexible educational; program must consider the differing demands of various intellects, and eliminate rigid and ill-considered restrictions...
...Business Board is exceedingly desirous of taking on several men who are anxious to become editors of the CRIMSON and who will thus share in its returns. It is hoped that anyone who has any interest in acquiring practical business experience and in enjoying the most interesting of extra-curricular activities while in College, will not heritable to come to the CRIMSON building on 14 Plympton St. next Wednesday evening to meet the members of the Business Board and to discuss the competition...
...competition with trucks and steamships which are not thus restricted, this is a serious handicap to the railroads. Counter-lobbying goes on against such pet Labor proposals as the six-hour day, a half-mile limit on train lengths and the "full-crew" plan for adding an extra man to every train...
While such an outlay might be considered sufficient today, these famished Englishmen demanded something a little extra with each meal. Such things as white peacocks served with their feathers still remaining "to make them look alive" or rabbits adorned with corral beads upon their feet and silver bells hung from their necks were really considered "comme il faut" by the Emily Posts of that...