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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college have sufficient means to enable them to go through college without help. These men would be inclined to feel that it would be unfair for them to compete against men who were actually in needs of funds. Even in the absence of pure altruism, such men might use this aspect of the situation to justify a lack of initiative on their part. Work in an undergraduate activity for pay might seem detrimental to their self-respect, as savoring too much of "professionalism." These considerations would tend to eliminate from competition for high positions most of those...
Plans have been nearly settled for the reconditioning and rearranging of the building for use by the Law School students and men living in the Yard...
...also said that big business demands and gets, because of contributions to the Republican campaign fund, almost any tariff rate it wants. You charged that giving to the steel men, to use your example, a tariff of 25 per cent was robbery, but you added that you were ready to give 10 per cent., 15 per cent., 20 per cent., 22 per cent., 23 per cent., or even as high as 24 per cent. Economists are agreed that all protection, except to "infant" industries, means robbery and that the high American standard of wages is not due to tariff...
...present the University squash courts on Linden Street are overcrowded with the three upper classes and the Law School students all trying to use them. By installing new courts in Hemenway the congestion in Linden Street will be avoided, and the courts will be much more convenient...
...basket ball court will probably be left intact for use for Law School league games, and any Seniors who wish to play there. This will mean that the University has three good courts available at all times...