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...hundred and twenty-eight more Freshmen last night added their names to the petition in favor of the fourteen-meal and ten-meal arrangement for the Harvard Union, bringing the total of signatures up to 178, or about 15 per cent of the entire Freshman class...
...petition calls for the same arrangement on meals that is granted the upperclassmen--that the Freshmen be permitted to take only fourteen or ten meals a week according to their desire...
Fifty Freshmen from Wigglesworth Hall last night signed a petition, demanding that the dining-hall system now in practice at the Houses be inaugurated at the Union, permitting the first year men to sign for ten, fourteen, or twenty-one meals a week, according to choice...
...petition read: "We, the undersigned, members of the Freshman Class of Harvard College, do hereby petition that the Harvard Union institute a new ruling, permitting us to sign up for only ten or fourteen meals a week, as is permitted to upperclassmen. Under the present system, unfair discrimination is exercised against us. We believe, moreover, that we should not be compelled to pay the present rates of $6.25 and $7.25 now charged in the other College dining-halls for the ten-meal and fourteen-meal week. These rates are based, not on the financial problems presented, but on a desire...
During the first week of October, some sixty-odd millions were pumped from the public reservoir into private pockets against fourteen millions for the comparable period in September. With election day only a month away, the meretriciously minded may suspect an ulterior motive for this sudden increase in the blood transfusion. Retail trade and the consumer goods industry in general will respond favorably to this infusion. The obverse side of the picture is less heartening with an impending decline in oil prices, as well as restricted motor production until stock in the hands of the dealer has been moved. Commodity...