Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paced the team against St. Paul's Saturday, giving up only six points in three games, will be in the number one spot again this afternoon. On the basis of the earlier score the freshmen will be the heavy favorite to maintain their unblemished record and increase their string to three straight victories...
...reason in simple: more than manpower and materials go into medical research. When, for example, the Rockefeller Foundation gives the School some money, the grant comes on a project basis, with a long string of Greek words stipulating what the money will be spent for. The School is left to sign the check for what officials term the "intangibles"--chief among them, spending time to organize the project and the providing of the space to carry it out. What happens is that for each $1.00 of gift money received, the School is often left...
...Strings. Last month, Britain's Catholic hierarchy came forward with its counterproposal. Under its provisions, all Catholic schools could be leased to the local education authority "at a rent which would allow for mortgage interest or redemption." The government would then support Catholic schools out of taxes, in return would have sole power to regulate school curricula and appoint teachers. Beyond the fact that the proposal would still leave the ownership of the schools in church hands, there was another big string tied to it: the teachers would be subject to Catholic approval "as regards religious belief, character...
...school's 62-year football history. "Let's say it's one of the greatest," said Horseman Elmer Layden, onetime fullback. But the 1949 entry made a good case for itself by crushing Southern California, 32-0, and stretching Notre Dame's unbeaten string to 37 games over four seasons...
This is ridiculous. One non-scholarship student, a member of the Varsity first-string lineup for two years, puts it thus: "Why doesn't Harvard give athletes an even break?" Not athletic scholarships, mind you, nor lowered entrance requirements, nor easy courses: just an even break. The H.A.A. and the Student Employment Office will not guarantee a job--a real job, where you work for the money you get; and the Housing Office will not guarantee a room in the same price bracket throughout a man's college career. Neither of these steps can be called "subsidizing...