Word: membered
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This is ridiculous. One non-scholarship student, a member of the Varsity first-string lineup for two years, puts it thus: "Why doesn't Harvard give athletes an even break?" Not athletic scholarships, mind you, nor lowered entrance requirements, nor easy courses: just an even break. The H.A.A. and the Student Employment Office will not guarantee a job--a real job, where you work for the money you get; and the Housing Office will not guarantee a room in the same price bracket throughout a man's college career. Neither of these steps can be called "subsidizing...
Yale, which cannot be accused of "subsidizing" any more than Harvard, does both these things. A member of the Minneapolis Harvard Club told one of the authors this fall that the Yale Club of the same city could offer a prospective Yale student both a steady job and a room at one price during his four years in New Haven. This relatively small guarantee means a lot to a boy who is not sure just how far his finances will go towards paying for college, and who does not know how much college will cost him in toto...
Filling in with impromptu remarks while waiting for a member who had forgotten his music, Mr. Holmes suggested the difficulty faced by an amateur orchestra in finding appropriate music for its programs. Works simple enough to be performed by the non-professional musician are quite apt to be unsatisfactory to the listener. Granting the validity of this problem, it is more to the credit of Mr. Holmes and his Orchestra that they were able to select a program which would please the audience while still falling within the technical limitations of the players...
Lettermen on this year's 47-man football squad will select a successor to Howie Houston from one of the returning junior and sophomore lettermen. In recent years the captain has always been a member of the next senior class...
Edward A. Shils, visiting lecturer on Sociology, will tell Europeans about the United States this winter at the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies. Shils is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and formerly a member of the faculty of the London School of Economics...