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...over-applications for the lower priced rooms, and under-applications for those in the higher brackets; Freshmen, quite naturally, have been unwilling to pay any more than they are forced to, and as a result many who could afford a high-priced room have gained cheaper ones, thereby forcing poorer men out of the Houses...
...temporary solution; it is, however, a problem for the University to solve. The demand for this solution is a fair one if the students are in turn asked to give as much as they can afford to the rents of rooms, to make in turn space for the poorer...
...wife's but with equal suddenness. He was the producer in Once in a Lifetime; his appalling Russo-Semitic accent was what brought him to Hollywood's attention but an infinite skill with certain kinds of characterization are what should prevent the attention from wavering. A poorer picture than Sweepings would be justified by Ratoffs rebuke to a department store Santa Claus whom he catches removing his beard: "Vat are you-Senta Claus or a bum we picked up for two-fifty...
...convinced that the dividing line suggested in question 11 is a good one, for often the poorer men show the most striking improvement in tutorial work. I approve of honors and pass degrees, but I feel none the less that the pass men should have tutoring, adapted to their courses...
...however, and it is not the most important. The House Plan is this year just getting into regular operation, and it is undoubtedly a reason for the improvement; the fact that the Senior class, the class which has enjoyed only two years of the House Plan, has made a poorer record than the Juniors and Sophomores to whom spires and quadrangles are in the natural order of things, goes to prove the point. There is also a tendency for college students to put more emphasis on intellectual activities, and to care more for knowledge than for sports, movies, and waxed...