Word: stop-gap
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...nearly similar as possible and likely to be helpful as a substitute until the desired book is returned. With Widener's wealth of books, it would be difficult to find a topic on which there weren't several volumes available. The chances are therefore fairly good that a stop-gap book could be discovered...
...problem is certainly not solved by the Riverside addition, although the University is to be commended for bringing into use all available facilities. For this effort, credit is due, but not credit for victory. For those outside there is no victory yet, not even the stop-gap consolation of House library, dining hall, and common room privileges. For them remains only the vague, unsatisfying hope for better treatment in the future...
...that the University, the House masters as well as University Hall, recognize that it has an intolerable situation on its hands. With hundreds of students up in arms because they cannot share in the advantages of the House Plan, it is obvious that some action, even if only a stop-gap solution should be take to salve the justly wounded students who have been left unplaced...
Further, as a stop-gap solution, to be used until University Hall slices college admissions to House capacities, the House Masters might well allow college dormitory men to eat in the dining halls. Assignment of these outcasts to the house dining halls would mean only an additional twenty men to each one, and, according to University authorities, this would not overtax their facilities. Leading a mouse-like existence, a lonely round from one hash house to another, these excluded men appreciate more than anyone else the opportunities offered by the Houses simply because they have missed them. Life on this...
Whether or not it be true that, as Wheeler asserts, approval of the enlargement plan will destroy the President, his further contention that liberal principles will be frittered away by this stop-gap legislation is highly logical. That a liberal of such long-standing as Senator Wheeler stands by this opinion is helpful to more conservative opposition forces. Even this unlooked-for support is overshadowed by that of Justice Brandeis, however, and the marshalling of liberal opinion behind the well-reasoned stand of these men can make for a strong coalition against the President's paternalism...