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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Food is big business within the University. During the last fiscal year, the Dining Hall Department spent $3,576,547--but less than half of this amount went directly to wholesale grocers. In fact, the Department spends only 44.3 per cent of its annual budget on the 31,000 pounds of flour or the 60,000 quarts of milk used monthly in its operations. If budget trimming can be practiced in the Department, it might start among the salaried workers. Wages account for 44.1 per cent of the Department's expenditures, and a reduction might make a drop...
...There is no assurance that any geography courses will be offered in the fall," Arthur A. Maass, associate professor of Government, disclosed yesterday. H. C. Darby, visiting professor of Geography, who is teaching two half-courses this term, will leave the University at the end of the Summer School session...
...houses presently on the site, which is owned by Radcliffe, have been donated to the Episcopal Theological School. Movers will cut them in half and transport them up Brattle St. to the seminary grounds...
...present system, which has gained the cautious approval of deans and students alike, has developed cyclically over a half century. During the general unrest of the nineteen-twenties, Radcliffe girls were bound by a social system of comparatively stringent rules. With the thirties came the progressively greater freedom that caused apprehension among members of the Administration. Ada L. Comstock, then President of the Annex, voiced the opinion, "You never take a step back--once you go forward, you never retreat." But she was at least partly mistaken, for the amending of senior privilege in the forties reversed the trend...
...loans to students, nor of the excellent quality of the National Defense Student Loan Program. It provides low interest loans up to $1,000 a year repayable over ten years following completion of a student's studies. Particularly noteworthy is the arrangement whereby public school teachers need only repay half the loan. Officials estimate 90,000 students will participate in the seven year program...