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...their retection. Although this is a perfectly permissible stand to adopt from the abstract merit of the sports in themselves, the seven dollar levy which they propose as the means of financing them is obviously impracticable, since it is in effect an increase in tuition which would work hardship on many and would be unfair to an equal number. The issue then comes down to the question of whether the intrinsic value of the minor sports is worth the sacrifice in some other direction that would have to be made to keep them...
Most fallow field for air transport is territory where surface travel is slow. Nowhere is it slower than in Alaska, where dogsleds and river boats make a journey to the interior a long-drawn-out hardship. Last week Pacific Alaska Airways, progressive subsidiary of far-flung Pan American Airways, opened a new 700-mi. airway between Fairbanks and Juneau, put on 200-m.p.h. Lockheed Electras which span all Alaska, from Juneau to Nome, in seven hours compared with 34 days by surface travel. New time from New York to Nome by air-boat-air: 4½ days...
...music was acquired, has this department received the recognition which it deserves. In consequence of this, the nineteenth century composers from Beethoven to Brahms are exceedingly well represented, but there are entire periods of great music, such as the seventeenth century, where the scarcity of the music works real hardship upon the Department...
...committee of this sort would act as a clearing house for student opinions and problems. It could facilitate a change of tutors, often absolutely necessary to make tutoring something more than an empty formality, without the hardship and embarrassment which usually accompanies such a step. A student who was unsettled as to what field of concentration he should choose could go to the representatives of the various departments to discover the requirements, context of courses, and methods of approach to subject matter. This function would be of material assistance in working out the recently instituted quota plan for Freshmen...
...some of their books, or are interested in the success of the plan, should turn them over to the House committee, which would have the power of acceptance or rejection If House library committees were to carry out these suggestions, neither of which would be an appreciable hardship for the persons affected, an extremely important addition to the library's usefulness would be made...