Word: gap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since old Memorial Hall -- still standing, in spite of recent reports--was converted from a dining hall to an examination chamber, graduate students have been in need of an acceptable substitute. Restaurants about the Square have served as a sort of stop-gap, and so prospered under the arrangement that they were ready to fight even the small student cooperative which is now safely located in Andover Hall. Their fight, which probably included pressure on the Cambridge Savings Bank to deny an important lease, was unsuccessful, and today the cooperative is clear evidence that the problem can be solved...
...Released the third of a series of 25 reports called the "census of American Listed Corporations." Prepared by WPA workers under SEC sponsorship, the reports are intended to bridge the gap between the tremendous volume of data in SEC's files and the potential users to whom it is now relatively inaccessible. The completed reports are sent to a selected list of 1,000 big brokers, bankers, statisticians, anyone else who writes in. First two were on meat packers and steel. Last week's dealt with chain variety stores. Sample fact: F. W. Woolworth...
...being fed continually by his mates, but Crimson stalwarts Lutz and Heckel came close to matching his dazzling efforts. Sporting a 20 to 16 half-time lead the Quakers were not threatened until the final two minute. But then they had to stall frantically as the Crimson closed the gap to only 38 to 35 just before the gun barked...
...comes to the not very startling conclusion that the only permanent answer is an eighth House. This is actually wishful thinking, because for all practical purposes a new House must be relegated to the if and when category, dependent upon the appearance of a fairy godfather. In the stop-gap measures designed to meet the needs of the present there is more to interest the homeless three hundred, whose hearts palpitate not one whit faster at the thought of a new House ten years from...
...Freshmen--their inability to study, their lack of even a superficial acquaintance with the world's thoughts and deeds. In brief, Harvard can urge the schools to modernize their teaching of both method and content, also to give depth and integration to their training, so that the existing gap between schools and colleges may be transformed into one continuous educational growth...