Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result last year was that the Student Council, which controls all things political among the Yardlings, conservatively postponed the elections for one month, by that token acknowledging the use of class officials to be negligible. This year the development of the Union Committee should be carried to its logical conclusion with the total abolition of the elections. The members of the Union Committee are well chosen, representing nearly all the halls, both private and public schools, commuters and residents, the East and the West. Until the time, which will come with Student Council elections in the spring of the Sophomore...
Other colleges experience the same problem, but remedy it by keeping their athletic plants open during hours when students are not pressed by other college duties. Yale, Tufts, and Columbia have gym facilities available for students on Sundays and holidays. New York University maintains evening use of its equipment for its students. We ask the H.A.A. why some such system cannot be adopted here...
...WPAsters wielding picks & shovels on a ditch-digging project in New York City's Bronx, 38 walked off the job one day last week and refused to labor more. Their reason: working with either pick or shovel was hard enough, but to ask any man to use these tools interchangeably (i.e., without a chance to rest while another worker plied the other tool) was "inhuman." Result: one man discharged, one suspended, interchangeable picking & shoveling resumed...
...years ago from Eton and Oxford by way of B.B.C. What the ryot likes is folk music, drama, dirty stories. What he gets from Etonian Fielden's programs is clean amusement and instruction. The instruction, however, has to be well disguised. Instead of lecturing the ryot on the use of fertilizer, Delhi broadcasts a farce in which Dulari, the peasant, becomes a millionaire. Dulari strikes it rich by spreading his fields with bone manure...
After a period in which it refused permission to the student Union to use a lecture room for its proposed forum of the candidates for Governor of Massachusetts except under stringent conditions, the University last night removed all restrictions bit the one limiting admission to students only by ticket...