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Lowell, largest of the Houses, but also containing the highest percentage of scholarship men, is next in line with 78 students who have pledged $35 and already paid $25 of this. Kirkland with 55 signed up for $20 every week, has sold its $20 quota and $8 more. Last on the list is Dunster with only 40 students pledged for $25 a week and $18 collected during the two days of the drive...
...biggest single medical undertaking in history" was projected last fortnight by the American Red Cross: in the next twelvemonth the organization will collect 2,500,000 pints of blood from U.S. citizens for their armed forces. This quota is about 50% higher than for the last twelvemonth, will require some 50,000 donors every week...
...from being dull, grinding, and unpopular sessions, the toughening program has been so successful that men stay beyond the close of their required hour and often attend more than the compulsory quota of workouts...
...boom you write about is only apparent. Even though the price of sugar has gone up and the Cuban sugar quota is larger, the cost of production has increased so much that even fair profits are questionable. Sugar bags have soared from 18 to 65? each, oil from 2 to 5? per gallon, steel plates from 2 ¾ % to 22? per pound, railroad ties from 90? to $1.60 each, wages from 80 and 90? to $1.30 and $1.40 per day, etc. To this one must add the extra cost of transportation caused by the storing of sugar...
...present time 175 are scheduled to arrive on August 10, and the quota of 400 will be filled later. They will live in Conant and Perkins Halls, formerly occupied by graduate students. There will be no housing problem, however, for the graduate school used to have an enrollment of 1200, and only about 200 are expected to be here in the fall...