Word: extras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first recommendation calls for the omission of some extra fees beyond the $15 per term charge. The fact that patients at Stillman must pay more than the $15, for medicine, special services, and after-hour calls, has always been a chief source of complaint. The committee would make up this loss of revenue by economics in the department. But they miss the stronger argument that the department showed a balance of more than $100,000 in 1946-47, the year they studied. This figure suggests that some of these irritating fees could be abolished...
...carrier will be the longest (1,090 ft.), and the biggest (65,000 tons) naval vessel afloat, and flat as a flounder. To reduce the ship's visibility and provide extra deck space, the lofty island of wartime U.S. carriers will be shrunk to two turret-like structures which telescope below deck level when not in use. The carrier's gill-like funnels are flush with the armored flight deck; it will have four catapults to fling its planes into the air. Like the 45,000-ton Midway-class carriers, it will be too wide...
...word is, don't pass up applying for a Rhodes Scholarship just because you're not a group one man. You've got to have pretty good grades all right, but they aren't any more important than being active in extra-curricular affaire, being able to think well on you feet, and being interested in athletics. If you can do all of these things, and are group three up, you are the ideal, well-rounded, red-blodded Rhodes Scholar...
...Council project. Preliminary organization of the publication is done by the Council, which also loans the group enough money to begin work. Consequently, if the Council decides to drop the Red Book, it would be up to University Hall to back the project. Official backing of any undergraduate extra-curricular activity has been consistently vetoed in the past...
Also gone with the balloon was a banner which was suspended about 50 feet below it. In fact, the only thing the pranksters did not take was the crossbar of the sign and a few feet of the extra-strong twine which anchored it about 300 feet...