Word: frees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a man becomes a member of a college he assumes responsibilities from which he has previously been free: he is obliged to sustain the reputation of the institution with which he is connected it is commonly but erroneously, supposed that is he develops his muscles, if he subscribes to the athletic enterprises and the College papers, if he occasionally at tends recitations, and if he professes a healthy antipathy to frigid religious exercises at frigider hours of the most frigid of winter mornings, he has done enough. In other universities he very probably has; but in Harvard the case...
...facts are: 1) New Zealand has never had national prohibition; 2) every three years since 1896 there has been a referendum in which voters have expressed preference for: A) free sale; or B) rationed sale as in Sweden; or C) total prohibition...
...referendum of last week free sale was carried by a majority, but since New Zealand always had had free sale,* the vote signified merely that voters are more wet-minded than they were nine years ago. Three years hence another referendum will be held and so ad infinitum...
...with well-stuffed wallets walk into the offices of the best medical specialists, have their ills suavely diagnosed and treated, their wallets suavely deflated. Men whose purses are lean almost to nothingness walk into charity clinics and hospitals where maladies are squelched free of charge, perhaps by these same specialists, always by adepts. But what of the man whose purse is merely modest? If his ills are complex he faces a dilemma. He cannot afford to consult leading medicos; he is generally too proud to accept charity service. What he would like is a clinic where fees proportionate...
...officers and students in the University will be admitted free. Tickets for balcony seats may be bought by the public for $1.25 each at Amee Brothers Bookstore, 21 Brattle Street, and course tickets for the five concerts will be sold for $5.00 each...