Word: money
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state government exert over its land-grant college? Massachusetts has gained a certain notoriety for the inordinate amount of academic control held by the state legislature. For example, the University of Massachusetts cannot keep any fees paid to it--tuition, board charges, room rents--but must turn the money over to the General Fund of the Commonwealth...
Edward L. Croman '60, President of the Council, noted the gains with satisfaction and commented that "another good year would put the Council in such fine shape that it won't have to go crying to the Dean's office for money...
After Faculty and Administration discussions and, presumably. Corporation action, the University could adopt one of a number of courses. After unfreezing the funds, it could continue to distribute the loan money and administer the oaths; or the University could withdraw from the program and return the funds to the federal government. A third, and more unlikely alternative, would be to encourage court action in order to test the legality of the loyalty oaths...
...turn of the century, Japan had acquired the trappings and some of the attitudes of the West. Baseball, beer, and business suits were popular in the upper classes, but attitudes toward women and money were traditional. Kan-ichi, a poorly-off University student, loves Miya, whose parents have arranged a marriage with wealthy Tomiyama. Miya is not submissive about giving up her lover, but her parents tell her that after marrying Tomiyama she will secretly be able to help Kan-ichi continue his schooling in Europe, acting as a "sister" to him. Her sacrifice, of course, is futile since...
Each goes off to his respective misery: Miya becomes the chattel of her husband and his mistress, and Kan-ichi a flunkey for "the notorious female loan-shark Akagashi." They are reunited only after Kan-ichi loses his money and Miya attempts suicide. The world, in this case, is well lost...