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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real surprise to anybody who has kept himself informed of the University's financial theories and present status. The Corporation has followed a rare policy in insisting that all faculties balance their own budgets without help from other sections of the University, and on the two occasions in the past when a deficit existed in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, drastic steps were taken: a ten percent expenses cut in 1940 and a tuition raise last year...
...balancing a budget determined by established educational policy is an immense one. Provost Buck has certainly done well to stay ahead of his competitors in the past three years, to keep his books balanced, to make what economies he could within the Faculty; he is correct in raising tuition now if failing to do so would hurt instruction. But he has assumed a very definite responsibility to make good on advising, on expanded scholarships, on reviving tutorial, and on drastically revising such College institutions as have fallen out of date in the last decade. He and the Faculty members involved...
...support. One was the army, whose ruling clique he headed. The other was labor, especially what he dubbed the descamisados (literally: shirtless ones), whose favor he had won (by wage boosts, social benefits, etc.) in a shrewdly realistic move to offset any fickleness among his army pals. In the past month many Argentines had noted that the army, fed up with mounting inflation and the politicking of Perón's wife Eva, had ceased to be the prop it once was. When the third anniversary of Perón's popular election fell last week, it became...
...Bill Casey used his brake for the first time, and the sled ground to a stop, about a city block past the finish line. They made the descent three times more before they pinned down the 1949 four-man bobsled championship. Average time: 1:13.32. Average speed: 46.8 m.p.h. Afterwards, Benham's No. 3 man, Jim Atkinson, felt his face and grinned: "Boy, was that wind cold." Somebody remarked: "It's all over but the drinking." Said Driver Benham: "I haven't had a drink in a long time . . . you can't drink and drive...
...Crimson had goalie Burns under constant pressure, but could not smuggle a score past him until 1:30 of the second period. At this juncture, Tom Moseley and Myles Huntington swept down the ice on a two man rush, Moseley sucked both defensemen out of position and passed to Huntington in front of the cage...