Word: rental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maintain the building for another year, and many of the collections were scattered throughout Fogg and other University buildings. Salvation was achieved only through some timely funds from the Busch family and their in-laws the Reisingers, as well as from the sale of books and lecture slides and rental of parts of the building to other University branches. In honor of their contributions, the museum was named in honor of the two families...
...month brought slight rises in rental and fuel costs, but they were offset by price cuts in clothing, house furnishings and automobiles. The steady price level meant that the average factory worker could buy more: weekly take-home pay in March reached a record $69.47 (for a man with three dependents), up about 75(-f from February...
...rooms, even though they pay higher rents. This argument would be valid if its promise were true that is, if each dormitory did contain an economic cross section of the freshman class. A study of student backgrounds in the Yard, however, provides another strong reason for revising the present rental system. More than sixty-seven percent of the freshmen now living in Wigglesworth, for example, came to the College from a private preparatory school. The corresponding proportion in Hollis is about twenty-seven percent. Similar differences exist between various other dormitories...
...overall inequities of the room rental system are more difficult to remedy. A careful re-assessment of all freshman rooms would eliminate the discrepancy between the price and the value of a given suite, but it would still concentrate the wealthier students in the newer dormitories. A better solution is the one that Yale has used successfully for several years: the establishment of an equal rent for all freshman rooms, and the assignment of these rooms on a chance basis...
...under existing statutes neither the vetoing to the first bill nor the passage of the revised bill will have any effect on student rental rates...