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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's record-breaking contribution of 173 percent of its quota raised the total of the School and College group to 135 per cent of its quota. The raised the Institutions division total to 112 per cent of its quota...
...output than the average. In a more precise terminology, there is a very small and exclusive category of "snaps," which can fulfill the wildest dreams of the party-monger and the crew man. These courses can usually be detected by a survey of enrollment statistics. Thus, when six hundred percent more students suddenly find their souls stirred by the esoteric beauties of Chinese literature, there is cause for more than conjecture. And likewise there is when, within a few years, six times as many heroes discover their spirits of adventure to be aroused by the challenge of geographical exploration...
...technicality this does not cover fraternity waiters. Thus undergraduates working for Morrow Cafeteria and the fraternities eating there are exempt while the other fraternity members have to pay, creating an obvious incongruity. The act further provides for a gradual increase in this Old Age Insurance Tax to six percent by 1948. To meet these payments fraternities will be forced eventually to cut down on either wages or jobs, hurting those who most need financial help. Thus is higher education encouraged...." --The Amherst Student...
After a hearing before the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation early yesterday, the strikers agreed to compromise on a 7 percent instead of a ten percent wage increase, and after ten hours of intermittent negotiations both sides by one o'clock this morning had reduced minor points in dispute to the question of termination...
...Although white collar unions have only organized five to six percent of the workers," he said, "the fact that so much has been gained in a comparatively short time is encouraging...