Word: hsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last September, the Harvard Student Agencies, Incorporated, was born amid cries of "monopoly" and "dictatorship." Now, one year later, HSA has weathered, but not conquered, teething pains which racked the organization in its early months...
Even directors feel that the early expansion of the company was ineptly handled. "We made an error of judgment in trying to gauge student reactions," Dustin M. Burke '52, director of the Student Employment Office, stated. "Our introduction to the Harvard community was tactlessly handled," HSA president Theodore H. Elliott admits...
Some of the faux pas of which over-exuberant HSA directors were guilty included implied coercion of independent concessionaires, poor presentation of the organization's advantages, and even lowered profits as the price of membership. All this uproar came through misjudgment. Burke and the other directors believed that "our greatest problem would come from Harvard Square merchants, not from the students themselves...
...HSA is investigating the possibility of securing a truck for agency use, in anticipation of next year's demands. "The stadium concessions will definitely need a vehicle to transport goods to the stands from the commissary (Briggs Cage)," the Newsletter stated...
Agencies for firewood, furniture moving, refrigerators, and house painting are among the others that might make "regular or occasional use" of a truck, the HSA suggested...