Word: make
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sometimes seriously feel that we should do better to pay all our varsity athletes a salary commensurate with their services and make them professionals in all respects...
...Enforcement. "It is the most serious issue before our people. . . . I have appointed a commission. . . . I am confident it will make a notable contribution." Major Hoover commissions now functioning?6; new Hoover commissions called for in his message?...
...phase of the House Plan has been conspicuously neglected in all the columns devoted to that subject. I refer to the fate of the many clubs and fraternities at Harvard under the House Plan. It is difficult to make any predictions, since there is so little positive data from which to predict. Nevertheless it appears certain that the new system, once instituted, will have an immediate and important effect on all the undergraduate social organizations at Harvard. It seems everyone is agreed that the outlook for the fraternities and clubs is serious, not to say alarming. It would be desirable...
...what are the clubs going to do with their clubhouses, which represent an investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars? Probably very few of these houses are endowed, and even those that are owned outright will be a terrific financial burden to their owners, if it is impossible to make the houses self-sustaining through rental income. Very few organizations are financially independent to the extent that they can afford to use their houses exclusively for social purposes. A certain income is mandatory, which means that initiation fees will have to be increased to so exorbitant a degree that membership...
Undoubtedly many clubs will find that the large minimum charge required for board in the Houses will make it impossible to serve meals in the clubhouses. In many cases this can hardly fail to result in the eventual dissolution of the clubs so affected. It is, however, well known that many of the clubs have had pretty hard sledding even under past conditions and that even more have been founded purely as a means of mitigating the unpleasantness of eating around. If the atmosphere in the Houses approximates even to a limited degree the attractiveness hoped for by its well...