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...requirement. At present the minimum tuition fee is $400, based upon the average four course modicum at $100 a course. Ostensibly the system is fair enough, since 16 courses are normally required for the degree, but in reality it is the cause of much injustice and not a little hardship...
President Roosevelt showed his clear perception that Cuba's troubles, superficially political, actually spring from an economic misery rooted chiefly in the low price of sugar. To supply the Allies with sugar during the War, Cuba became virtually a one-crop country, suffered terrific hardship when the sugar boom collapsed. In 1924 Conservatives and Liberals united to elect Gerardo Machado who was hailed as a "businessman President" much as was Herbert Hoover later. President Machado has cooperated actively in the Chadbourne Plan of world sugar crop restriction, but with U. S. tariffs soaring higher and higher against Cuban sugar...
...hoary institution called Queen Anne's Bounty. Its Chairman George Middleton is a onetime Laborite M. P. and friend of Scot MacDonald. Whenever the Prime Minister grows excited about tithes, George Middleton is wont to declare firmly "Queen Anne's Bounty never prosecutes in cases of genuine hardship...
...that which was made last year, ought to be investigated carefully. One possible way of making such a revision would be to abandon the present arrangement by which tutors in the Houses are not charged for the rooms they occupy. Whether or not this would work too great a hardship financially on the tutorial staff is an undermined point, which the Committee should look into. Remembering that the last Council Report was particularly influential in regard to the employment of students and the reduction of room rents. It is to be hoped that the sequel this year will be made...
Another grievance among veterans was the Economy Act under which President Roosevelt lopped $460,000,000 from the pension rolls. For weeks the White House has been deluged with complaints that such reductions will work a real hardship upon men with battle injuries. Case after case has been cited of veterans who lost an arm, a leg or an eye and who now must take a 50% cut in their compensation. Last week President Roosevelt stole more critical thunder from the bonuseers by announcing...