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...Board decisions mark the first full-scale attempt to check abusive competition for potential "who's who" students, while at the same time seeking a basis for fairer distribution of scholarship funds to students who show actual need...
...system, which charged fifty cents per hour for the first, day did not distinguish between students who were ten minutes late, and those who barely slipped in under the hour deadline. Offering a more finely graduated scale, Lamont's new plan will be fairer to the casual offender without taking the sting out of fines. The library, by charging twenty-five cents each tardy half hour, will provide the conscientious student with an opportunity to save and will no longer penalize him so much as his sleepier companions...
There were other signs, all over Africa, of a fairer share of the blanket. Items: ¶ In blossoming Uganda, where Baganda tribesmen still mourn the loss of their exiled Kabaka (TIME, Dec. 14), Governor Sir Andrew Cohen took a plane for London to discuss "social and economic re forms" with British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton. Said Cohen before takeoff: "There must be no color bar in Uganda; this evil thing will never be permitted in this country...
...agricultural colleges." Poe spurred the fight to change all that. Progressive Farmer educated farmers to diversify their farming ("Don't try to farm with one arm"), demanded "more doctors for rural areas," and worked for a better deal for the Negro ("We must fight for a much fairer deal for the Negro, even while we also oppose the extremist demands of his more violent spokesmen"). Poe kept Progressive Farmer free of any single farm group, still carries the legend in the magazine: "Serving no master, ruled by no faction, circumscribed by no selfish or narrow policy...
What Chichí seems to want now (though he has not said so officially) is a fairer annual rent. Possible asking price: $1,000,000, or a percentage of the canal's tolls (now running around $37 million a year). Chichí also would like the Canal Zone to curb some of its business activities (notably, commissaries for its employees) to help competing Panamanian commerce...