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...pamphlets describing the five new Houses are similar to those which were issued for Dunster and Lowell Houses last year. The pamphlets and blanks are being sent out before the Christmas recess so that men may have an opportunity to consider the matter carefully during the holidays, and to consult their families...
...years of Cabinet membership simultaneously with assuming his position in the Senate. When it became known that he would not be seated on the Senate's opening day, his resignation became momentarily ineffective, he still retained his secretariat. Mr. Doak was not sworn in as a recess appointee. Meantime, Messrs. Doak and Davis had gone through preliminary ceremonies for the newsreels in which the retiring official had presented his successor to the successor's wife as "the handsomest Secretary of Labor in American history." Acme News Pictures Inc. broadcast newspaper photographs of the occasion nationwide...
...Shattuck '01, treasurer of the University, issued a statement to the effect that the Widener scrubwomen had at all times been paid the full amount demanded by the Mimimum Wage Commission of Massachusetts, and that the various respites taken by the women from their work during the recess allowed by the University compensated for the fact that they received two cents an hour less in their pay envelope. The next month, Lamont, representing a group of 50 Harvard graduates announced that they would raise $5,000 to give to the scrubwomen. This plan failed, and the case was considered concluded...
Following the Christmas recess the Topiarian Club of the Architectural School begins its sixteenth annual competition, open only to second and third year men and lasting three days. Three judges chosen from among outside practitioners will award the prizes: the first a silver cup; the second a book. Second year men are already working on a housing problem at Waverley Oaks while third year men are constructing an assumed graduate school of fine arts. The plans for the outdoor areas will be exhibited...
Even the little boys at his Brooklyn public school teased gangling Arnold Baker. They made fun of him because he was 14 and still in the fifth grade, they shoved him about at recess time, shrilled derisive nicknames at him, called him "Big Boy," "Daddy Longlegs," "High-Pockets." Timid, lonely High-Pockets had a bad time of it. One day last week High-Pockets refused to go to school, again begged his mother to let him quit and go to work. When she went out, High-Pockets locked every door and window in the house, crawled up to and stuck...