Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tomorrow afternoon a mass meeting at Radcliffe will make a decision on what is probably the most significant long-range proposal to face 'Cliffe voters in years. The proposal deals with a perennial Garden Street problem: financing extra-curricular activities. It suggests solving the problem by establishing for each undergraduate a compulsory $12 fee to cover a wide range of extra-curricular expenses, including News and Signature subscriptions, Student Government and Class dues, Idler tickets, and charges for two clubs...
...disgustedly at the grubby book, which was fresh from the shelves of Widener. The book had a certain amount of presumption, he thought, in claiming to be able to explain anything to him Especially when a soft wind was bending the grass down before it and the stores on Mass. Ave were showing bright Spring ties in their windows. Vag got up slowly, realizing that the grass was damper than he had thought. He fingered his book, overcame an impulse to hurl it into the Charles, and started back across the Drive. You could throw a lot of bull...
...year's end will be "appreciably, but not disastrously" lower than last year's. Without such aid, Britain would be flat broke (in terms of dollars). Food rations would have to be cut to near-starvation levels. Imports of raw materials would have to be slashed, causing mass unemployment. Britain's whole industrial machine would begin to run down...
...Alexander Hamilton. It was the first bank in the then small (pop. 23,000) city of New York. Its immediate success brought two more banks-and worries-for Banker Hamilton. "'Tis impossible," he wrote in 1791, "but that three great banks in one city must raise such a mass of artificial credit as must endanger every one of them, and do harm in every view...
Radcliffe's 900 undergraduates are nearing a vote on one of the year's most controversial issues on Garden Street. A mass meeting Thursday will decide yes or no on a proposal for a compulsory Student Activities fee which would assess every student $12 annually to cover nearly all her costs through the year for non-academic Radcliffe activities...