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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cents per kilowatt hour; while in Alabama, electricity is produced in a government plant at less than two cents per kilowatt hour and then sold by this government plant for eight cents. Does not the Democratic program, of government ownership of the generating plants, with distribution by private companies mean that consumers will be forced--as they now are in Alabama--to pay an enormous profit to the distributing companies? Harvard Thomas-for-President Club, Donald Thompson 1Dv., President...
...element of time does not enter alone into the question The conditions of the original gift of $250,000 which gave impetus to the plans stipulated that construction be begun by February 1929, and be complete by February, 1930. Failure to meet the first of these conditions will mean the loss of the gift--a quarter of the entire sum needed. It is not enough that the friends of Harvard discharge their responsibility eventually They must discharge it quickly, or become members of that unfortunate class, the pinch-hitters who failed...
...believe they talked of me for they laughed consumedly" is one of the famous bits of the play. Archer and Aimwell, the Restoration gentlemen, played by Arthur Sircom and Milton Owen, fail to convince. Their stilted stage poise is an overdoing of the mannerisms of the epoch they mean to portray. The characters they should represent seem always just without their reach...
...indeed the possibility, of participation in the wide field ranging from athletics to music and literary work, is lessened. Unquestionably the verdict for scholarship is a just one. Still, no one yet expects from the college student the singleness, of scholastic purpose teat characterizes the graduate; and the present mean is one beyond which the administration's requirements can go but little without weighing down The scale toward a college life perhaps too strictly academic...
...mean and drizzling in the East, chilly and clear in the West, and sticky in the South, more football teams scampered about on more playing fields...