Word: priced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indeed, it is obvious that, undergraduate polls and undergraduate jitterbugs notwithstanding, no House should ever engage a "name" orchestra. To pay for such orchestras it is necessary in the first place to raise the price of admission beyond the reach of many members of the House. This is a patent injustice and ample reason in itself for abolishing such dances. Secondly and consequently, it is necessary to initiate an expensive advertising campaign and lure in outsiders, usually Freshmen or members of other Houses, but too often out and out ringers. Thirdly, the House dining-halls (with a single possible exception...
Specific differences, such as the total number of vacancies and the number of suites available of a given size or at a given price, can be learned at the individual Houses. Since these vary widely, both from House to House and from year to year, it is advisable to get the interview over as early as possible and then do some shopping around if rooms available are few at the price and size desirable...
Freshmen should see the Housemaster or head tutor if possible; they have the most say when the final list is made up. It is also a good idea to set as high a price as possible: this is fairer to those who cannot afford to make a high bid, and increases the chances of getting in, for obvious reasons. Interviewing more than one member of the House staff is by no means a handicap...
Last week, still fecund at 87, this corporate oldster proudly brought forth an offspring: a new car, the Studebaker Champion, frankly designed to compete with Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth in the low-price field. Other makers have tried for ten years to crash this field without success, and Studebaker itself has had two previous cracks at it with the Erskine and the Rockne...
Ford, General Motors and Chrysler today control 90% of the U. S. car market. Studebaker, Packard, Nash, Hudson and the few other remaining independents survive on 9% of the dwindling medium-price field. Since Studebaker emerged from 776 in 1935, Messrs. Hoffman and Vance, now president and chairman respectively, have been pondering this squeeze (on sales of 52,000 medium-priced cars in 1938 they lost $1,700,000). They decided the public would not buy any car smaller or less powerful than Ford, Chevrolet or Plymouth (vide the Austin and Willys). They knew they could not compete with...