Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should be alarmed over the arbitrary method by which his money is allocated to non-charitable organizations through the College. His contributions to this Fund, made under the general impression that this money was to be devoted to various charities, enabled the Council to invest $3400 in various Freshman affairs over a period of five years. It is true that $2700 of this money was returned to the Council, but what of the balance of $700, what of the scholarships that could be granted for that money, and what system of auditing was employed to insure that this money...
...election in March of each year. The incoming Sophomore class would be represented by four men, to be chosen from the Yard on the same plan. In all cases, nomination for the House elections should be conducted by petition, with modifications of the present plan to insure a fair method af obtaining signatures...
...Jack Kennedy recalled a promise he had made when he was a PT-boat skipper in the Solomons. Said he: "When ships were sinking and young Americans were dying ... I firmly resolved to serve my country in peace as honestly as I tried to serve it in war." His method of serving was to try for Congress as a Democrat from Massachusetts' Eleventh District...
Calling for "revision of the Student Council organization along more democratic lines," the Harvard Liberal Union, in a letter yesterday to the undergraduate governing body, requested a meeting with the Council to discuss possible changes in its method of selecting College representatives...
Next to Koch. The biggest news last week came from Buffalo, where three tuberculosis societies held a joint convention.* Bacteriologist Rene Jules Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute had at last discovered a method of cultivating TB bacteria, simply and quickly, in test tubes. The basis of Dubos' method is a synthetic detergent made by Atlas Powder Co. (which calls it "Tween 80") for use in cosmetics. Doctors hailed the discovery as the greatest contribution to TB research since Robert Koch first isolated the germ itself...