Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indeed the policy is so ideal in concept that it could stand more careful enforcement. Every year fifteen hundred men qualify scholastically for admission, and approximately a thousand are taken in. The grave responsibility attached to denying five hundred men a Harvard education appears at times to be taken too lightly, and with insufficient basis for discrimination...
...Fifteen to twenty men came out for the wrestling team as compared with fourteen for the gymnastic team, which shows that the interest in both sports is about the same. Yet of the two only the wrestling team has a coach. The present objection to having a coach seems to be that the Gymnastic Association is not on a paying basis, and that more expense is not warranted. Is this reason more valid for this branch of sport than for the wrestling, which also yields a deficit annually? Besides, the gymnastic associations do not pay in the colleges where they...
Five years and fifteen billion dollars ago Franklin Roosevelt embarked on the policy of spending the Nation out of depression. To raise submerged industrial indices and put 12,000,000 men to work, the pump of national finance was primed with Government money. Spending theoreticians like the Federal Reserve's Marriner Eccles would have liked to see the full force of the spending concentrated on industry rather than scattered between producers and consumers and an important Eccles corollary would have been a temporary lifting of the tax burden to help business help itself (see p. 18). At any rate...
Saturday's University Handicap Meet in the Stadium was a day for the underdog, for only four men without the benefit of handicaps gained first places. With the advantage of handicaps the unfavored dominated the fifteen events...
...will be Harvard's first appearance since the defeat at the hands of the Cambridge University fifteen in March. With many pointers from the Britishers, the Crimson squad has been working hard on their offense in practice...