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Inflation seems to have hit the student pocketbook and the demand deposits of the Boston Elevated Railway simultaneously yesterday. Parsimony and scrupulous honesty have tangled and honesty probably will prove to be the bet policy for those who try to take the girl friend to Boston for a dime by way of the tandem turnstile at the Hayes-Bickford subway entrance...
Hollywood, living far beyond its cus tomers' means, suffers from a severely bloated pocketbook (TIME, Oct. 21). The complaint is chronic, but a shrewd new diagnosis has been made by the Saturday Review of Literature's roving reviewer, John Mason Brown...
...resolute in resisting alumni pressure to let in the son of dear old Jones of the Form of 1896 when the boy has an I.Q. of 98. . . . We are none of us content to have so large a portion of our student body there simply because of. . . the paternal pocketbook. . . . We all want to open our doors wider to talent, [to] a more genuine cross-section of the entire American community...
Such procedure places an unnecessary strain on both the veteran's pocketbook and the University library system. The summer term recently completed indicated the shortage of many of the texts most in demand. Unable to obtain textbooks through University or House library sources, veterans were forced to by "unauthorized" but required texts with their own resources, thus adding to the cost of their Harvard education. It will be regrettable if, because of thoughtlessness or carelessness, the experience of the summer term is repeated...
...speak for all undergraduates, but tends to dismiss problems other than those dealing with policy as beneath its consideration. In the next two years, undergraduates are going to be faced with the problem of overcrowding, of incorporating married veterans into the life of the College, and of the eternal pocketbook. The only medium through which students will be able to demand and obtain action is through a Council sensitively alert to their problems and eligible to speak for them. The only way such a Council can be realized is through the adoption next fall of the plan for revision...