Word: unite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard is perhaps unique among colleges in the extent to which the Freshman year is set apart as a unit. Besides living together in the Yard, the first-year men have their own eating and recreational center in the Union, now turned over to their exclusive use. In athletics there is a complete set-up of Freshman teams, while intramural sports are organized on a dormitory basis corresponding to the inter-House program of the upper classes...
Each House is a unit unto itself, with dining hall, library, common rooms, and squash courts. The three new Houses, Eliot, Lowell, and Dunster, are built in truly luxurious style, Eliot being reputed to have cost $3,000,000. The other Houses, made over from what used to be the Freshman Halls, are not quite so well appointed but many have added advantages, such as the swimming pool of Adams House or a particularly good tutorial staff, which make them equally attractive...
...loan and, aware of the nation wide banking crisis, was leery of sinking millions in Detroit. Furthermore R. F. C. Chairman Miller considered the loan "immoral" because the collateral offered had been stripped from the sound banks in the Guardian group while the loan was to buttress the weak unit...
...managed currency is inconceivable as affording an international monetary standard," cried Signer Jung. "As for monetary systems based on price indices and other elastic measures this is our opinion: no unit of measurement for the productive efforts of nations and for the coordination of the various productive activities within each nation can be based on such quicksands...
...Headmaster Walter Huston Lillard. Dartmouth man and Oxonian who had been assistant to the headmaster of Andover since 1907. His 150 boys sail, row. cruise, hold cutter drills. Every spring they are taken on a cadet-training cruise to Central America. They may join a "Sea Scout" unit (nautical branch of the Boy Scouts) under the direction of Captain James P. Lewis of the Naval Reserve...