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...nation have been running in the red for the past decade and now need federal aid to supplement inadequate private contributions if they are to survive. Since inflation and high taxes have increased operating expenses and cut into private donations, the schools have had to keep salaries low and skimp on research and expansion. Tuition fees, which covered about seventy percent of the costs of medical training in 1910, meet only twenty-five percent today. Since tuition must remain low to attract students, the medical schools have to find aid elsewhere...
...Autumn" is the story of the return of a Prodigal Son to his New England home. (I capitalize the words because Mr. Phelps does not skimp on Biblical analogy. His play is not so much about a New England family as about a group of symbols and ideas which happen to be residing in the bodies of a New England family; his characters never speak for themselves, their earthly selves, but always for their symbolic selves, and for the author.) The son returns and stirs up the maelstrom of hatred and misunderstanding which is basic in his family. His eldest...
Said "Scan," "...a cooperative system which reduced Smith students to one of the greatest drones of the collegiate world is justified financially. It exists as one of the many ways the college can skimp enough to offer the richest opportunities to the student who must be paid for her work or renounce a life of study." The word "drones" which the "Scan" writers used refers to the four hours of work per week that every Smith girl has to put in, on watch (Smithian for bells), in the dining hall, or as housemaid...
...infirmary laundry was forced to close down, forcing nurses to skimp on clean pajamas and sheets for students. Several wards had to do without hot water for heating...
Economics 1 will not be the unadorned primer in economic technique this year that it once used to be. The course will skimp on the study of technicalities in favor of a broader approach...