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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will seen be asked to contribute money to this Council budget. The majority of this money is given to charities in Cambridge and Boston, and a certain amount to such national organizations as the Red Cross. Each year roughly three thousand dollars is given to the Phillips Brooks House fund. Around a thousand dollars is laid aside to help students deemed worthy by the Council who are unable to meet a form bill. The purpose of this original contribution is then to take care of requests from Charitable Organizations with which you would otherwise be flooded during the rest...
...thousand Freshmen who greet the Yard for the first time on September 24th will begin an experience that is not just the start of another school year, but rather the commencement of a new phase of their lives. The new surroundings and environment, the new people with whom they will have to deal, and the altogether new responsibility for the ordering of their own affairs mark the end of school days and the beginning of the journey of adult life. And for all but a few the four years spent in Harvard will be an experience rich in itself...
That foreign trade is a losing game, for them at least, is the shipping man's plaint the world around, for the following reasons : 1) there are too many ships; 2) depressions, tariffs and a thousand unpredictables hobble it; 3) profitable trade routes fluctuate as the breeze but commerce demands regular schedules. U. S. shipping men face the added complication that U. S. ships cost more to build and operate than foreign bottoms because of the higher wages of U. S. Labor. Astraddle this situation, which the Government has at last given full recognition after years of such temporizing...
Twenty-six thousand cheering spectators wondered why, after his long-sought 14th victory, the pitcher did not prance gaily off the field, tossing wisecracks. In the clubhouse Gomez sat with bowed head, struggling to keep back tears. Said he: "I don't recollect that I was in a game. I don't know what batters I faced. I don't know who made the hits. . . . My whole life at home rolled before...
...many thousand apple trees raised from seed produces worthwhile fruit, but presumably pioneers were not particular. Today apple trees are grafted...