Word: slips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon last week the city editor of the New York Evening Post called a rewrite man, handed him a slip from the City News ticker. It was a brief bulletin of a fire in a building near Times Square. The rewrite man, Arthur McCullough, knew what to do. He thumbed through a reversed telephone directory (classified by address), called a number listed for the building. That telephone had been disconnected. At random he called another telephone in the same building. A man "with a voice that was both urbane and cheery" answered. In its next edition the Post published...
When Coach Edward P. ("Slip") Madigan went to St. Mary's in 1921, there were 60 students in an old brick plant in Oakland, Calif. Now St. Mary's has 750 students, a $2,000,000 campus in Moraga Valley. Coach Madigan is largely responsible for the change. In 1921, St. Mary's played Stanford with 16 men on the squad, made 10 points to Stanford's 14. In 1926 and 1929 St. Mary's had undefeated teams. Coach Madigan was a Notre Dame guard under Knute Rockne and Rockne's predecessor, George Harper...
...just demand for a change, for a liberalization of the system. And having considered the request, Lehman Hall has responded that there are many objections to be overcome. An unlimited freedom, where a man could sign for his own meals in any House and have the slip counted in his own quota, presents, it claims, many obstacles. The amount of book-keeping, already great, would be enormously increased, and require expensive additional clerks. Convenient or peculiarly attractive Houses would soon become eating centers, and would be overcrowded; under such conditions, bound to be unstable and irregular, it would be impossible...
...first plan is to allow the host to sign for his guest's meal on a slip exactly like his own; thus the slip would be counted in the host's quota, at no additional cost. The scheme seems to answer the objections. There need obviously be no added book-keeping; and while there would be more inter-House dining, the restriction of the host's signature ought to prevent any concentrated rush from House to House, with its consequent disruption of meal-planning and degeneracy of House Unity. Such a system seems to be sufficiently liberal to satisfy undergraduates...
...second plan, considerably more liberal, would allow the guest to pay for his own meal. In cases where this is desired, a special slip would be provided; in one blank space the guest would fill in the name of his House; in another place the host would affix his countersign. The difficulties of book-keeping should not be measurably increased, for these special slips could be separated, sent to the House where the guest resides, added to his own slips, and then counted in with his quota. The countersign of the host would be required and would insure practically...