Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longest session in Council history saw two major projects, the Service Fund drive and the poll on wheat conservation, fall short of their goals and the Council took immediate steps to prevent recurrence of the same problems in the future, salvaging what it could from the present...
While results of the Service Fund drive were not completely tabulated, the campaign seemed certain to fall short by at least $9,000 of the $25,000 target. Even though further contributions were expected to dribble in to meet this exigency, the Council voted (1) to curtail sharply grants to charities, (2) to economize on projected Council work, and (3) to reduce the number of Harvard National Student Association delegates to the national convention at Madison, Wisconsin, next summer...
...first time since before the war, a term will begin next February without a single new face making an appearance in Memorial Hall. After a long decline and fall, the wartime mid-year admittance system has finally found its way to the scrap heap. Although 400 Seniors will leave College for the last time, not a single Freshman or returning veteran will be on hand to replace them. It might seem that now all those long-suffering forced commuters and unHoused upperclassmen might get a chance for a room along the River. But, sad to relate, that...
Enrollment in public schools hit a record 24,209,796 this fall, the National Education Association reported. War babies have swollen the schools by half a million...
...Second for Santa Claus, first for me, thirteen for wreath, seven for tree. Bring me an auto, a book and a ball, and I'll say 'Merry Christmas' in spring, not in fall...