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Characteristic of the little torments which University officials invent to rack the pocketbook of thriftless students is the requirement that House members forego not less than a week's meals, if they wish to escape payment for meals which they have missed. If, on the seventh day of the week during which he has declared his intention of buying no meals from the dining halls, a student from afar and absentmindedly orders White Rock and ice in his dining hall, under present rules he is charged for the seven days' meals which he misses...
Apart from its special features, Yale's problem is that of every large university situated in a small city. Especially in times of depression, the demand that the universities forego, in whole or part, their special privileges, is bound to recur. Harvard's "gentleman's agreement" with Cambridge sprang from a similar situation and a similar feeling. The material and intellectual advantages which a locality derive from the presence of a great university are not sufficient, in times of economic stress, to compensate for the loss of revenue from the tax exemptions of wealthy institutions. The pressure of taxation...
...many to the callousness of the federal government in dealing with the young criminal. The United States government, practically alone among the civilized nations, makes no distinction between the child and the adult criminal. When a few days ago President Hoover-recommended that the Attorney General be empowered to forego prosecution of children and turn them over to the state authorities for special care, he was proposing no startling advance but was merely advising a step that long since should have been taken...
After two weeks of work, Congress last week scattered for two weeks of rest. President Hoover had tried to induce Congress to forego its usual holiday and legislate economic relief but the leaders told him that not a corporal's guard, much less a quorum, could be kept in Washington to work through Christmas and New Year's Day. Gently they hinted that his present anxiety would be more becoming if he had summoned a special session last summer or autumn...
...average man a chance to cat in another House with a friend without the meal being paid for twice to the same person who has contracted to give the meal, but at another table,--no, another dining room. As the CRIMSON editorial said: "a man is constrained either to forego his pleasure or to consider himself an uninvited guest and suffer the embarrassment of knowing that he is causing his host a not inconsiderable expense. Conversely, the extra charges involved in entertaining guests of men prevent a House resident from inviting friends to dine with...