Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undergraduates of the college will be asked at the time of registration to contribute to the budget of the Student Council. This budget is estimated to be $7,800, a figure reached through experience in former years, which represents roughly $5.00 from each student. The money is contributed to local charities, scholarship aides, and for maintenance expenses of the Council (which are surprisingly...
Several years ago the Council found that it was the wish of the undergraduate body that it contribute for them to the local charities in Cambridge and Boston. Their policy has been very successful in keeping the students from being bothered by begging letters and personal visits from representatives of these charities. Therefore a generous contribution to the Council budget will protect the undergraduate and at the same time clear his conscience...
...boys clubs. Last year at the peak of activity there were 209 men doing this work. In addition, this committee during the past year has become interested in the problems of juvenile delinquency and the prevention of crime, and they offer in this line an opportunity to visit the local prisons and to meet the men engaged in the work...
...census. So the National Lutheran Council, offended by Moderator Babson's statement, rechecked with reporting churches, last week issued a rebuttal to Moderator Babson's charge. Every church, said the Council, stuck by its figures. In many cases, however, church bodies had to take the word of local ministers as to how many parishioners were enrolled. Chief point in favor of the Christian Herald figures: church assessments and quotas, even when marked up to assure a decent return, are on a per capita basis. Thus, as one Lutheran reported: ''No pastor or secretary would dare...
More interesting to Texans last week was the question of whether Hearst, is involved in the deals. Elliott Roosevelt is continuing in his berth at Hearst Radio, Inc., and local radiomen in Fort Worth and San Antonio last week freely declared they thought he was merely acting as a front for William Randolph Hearst. According to Elliott's friends, however, the move represents an attempt to free himself from the exploitation of his name which has attended his other business ventures. Asked to clarify the matter last week, Radioman Roosevelt stiffly announced: "The Frontier Broadcasting Co. is being wholly...