Word: seventeen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...N.Y.A. report, a parietal rules recommendation, and a report on education under its belt, the Student Council has settled down into a late-winter lethargy. Only two brief routine ballot checking meetings have been held in the last six weeks, and at one of these exactly five of the seventeen representatives of the undergraduate body showed up at meeting time. The only meeting which has had anything like full attendance was the one at which a life photographer was also present...
...first criticism has added weight when specific departments are considered. For example, in one department eighty-three percent of the expenses would be untouchable Faculty salaries, so that the cut would have to come entirely from the seventeen percent reserved for teaching fellows, annual instructors, and administrative expenses. In this case the number of non-permanent teachers dropped would almost certainly be disproportionate to the number of students drafted, and instruction would consequently be impaired. The criticism dealing with tutorial follows from this, as non-Faculty men do the bulk of the tutorial work. The third criticism also is bound...
...March 18, 1940, Hitler and Mussolini met at Brennero. Twenty-two days later Germany invaded Denmark and Norway. On Oct. 4 they met again at Brennero. Twenty-four days later Italy invaded Greece. On that same day, Oct. 28, Hitler and Mussolini met in Florence. Seventeen days later Germany bombed Coventry. Maybe these were coincidences or maybe something is going to happen soon...
...least twenty-one National Scholarships, with maximum stipends of $1,000 each, will be offered this year to entering Freshmen from schools in seventeen states in the Middle West, South, and Far West, President Conant announced tonight...
...Seventeen members of the Varsity track team will compete in a Veterans of Foreign Wars meet at the Boston Garden tomorrow...