Word: lowerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because of the size of the group, it is not feasible to suggest that all the incoming men who receive lower than 75 on the college board English examination to be allowed to take the examination to be given in September. Therefore, we recommend that all those men who received between 75 and 60 on the college board examination be allowed to take the September examination in English...
Recently two motronly ladies, the pre-season buddings of the crop of summer tourists, made their pilgrimage to the lower regions of Baker to see for themselves the work of the Mexican Leonardo. They walked up and down for some time, looking at the shrieking panorama in silence. Finally one of them folded her hands and stood fascinated in the middle of the room...
Further, none of these lower paid men are certain of advancement; many of them cannot be advanced because of the lack of funds and available positions. As a result men reach the age of 40 or 45 still on a small salary, and Harvard cannot throw them into the street. Meantime, realizing this situation, tutors and section men worry about their future. The calibre of their work of necessity drops because of insecurity and continual doubt; they are over-tired, inefficient; nervous breakdowns are not unknown...
...Councilmen of Government for setting up their booth on the lawn outside University Hall. This is certainly the time and the country for action by the flying wedge, and one man's pressure is as good as another's. We have groups to raise the tariffs, groups to lower the tariff, groups to make us eat sugar, and groups to make us drink less alcohol. We have groups to remove the Indians from Oklahoma and groups to give New York back to the Indians. And now comes the most courageous of them all: the Council of Government Concentrators dares...
...Pullmans) were unfair, would do the roads more harm than good. When the ICC turned a deaf ear to all protests and ordered the new rates into effect June 2 as scheduled, the Eastern group decided on a court fight. Fortnight ago the B. & O. declared it would lower its rates anyway...