Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student Board of Columbia college proposed the idea of the conference, to include discussion of such topics as Academic Freedom; Voting Systems; Systems of Representation; Athletics-intercollegiate and intramural; Commuters; Student Finance and Scholarships; Loans and Subsidies; Employment offices and Vocational Guidance; Curriculum; Religion; Physical plant; and, Fraternities and Social Life...
Members of the Harvard Student Council expressed complete accord with the idea and they have agreed to send a representative to the conference. However, John B. Bowditch '37, President of the Council, has written asking to have the date of the meeting changed if possible as it conflicts directly with the scheduleed Harvard-Yale Princeton, Conference on Public Affairs to be held in Cambridge on those dates...
...when it is too late to change anything. The President complains he is so overworked that he cannot adequately discharge his duties, while, in corroboration, the Brownlow Committee believes that the executive branch has grown up haphazardly. As an added enticement to Congress, it is thought that the whole idea saves the "most costly bureaucracy in history" thirty millions...
...Fisher Body No. 1 and No. 2 at Flint, and several others. Consequently, no one knows how many of the employees who are out of work are really strikers and how many are simply deprived of work by the strikes. It is doubtful whether the Union itself has any idea as to how many real strikers there are even in the plants where spontaneous strikes have been started by some of the employees...
...admit there is a case of influenza here. Every case I have seen has been a neglected cold which is not the textbook idea of influenza. Goodness knows, we have had an explosion of some sort here...