Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While we regret the Committee's premise that sufficient funds cannot now be raised to build an entirely new Activities Center, we applaud their recognition of the vital role which an auditorium and extra-curriculum facilities can play in the life of the University. We join them in hoping that a truly significant memorial can be designed within the terms of reference which they have...
...College. Finding players poses no problem: half a dozen 1944 Varsity ruggers still at the University have indicated their willingness to play, and experience of the thirties showed that a number of football players always seemed to find berths on the spring-time rugby squad. With the single and vital exception of lacking a coach, '48 rugby prospects are bright. Whenever Soldiers Field sod is finally revealed from beneath snow drifts, a rugby team can expect to have the usual H.A.A. facilities at their disposal...
...Houses and dormitories to produce a $100,000 "traditional" surplus for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Increased room rents for non-House purposes penalize those living in the dormitories, yet leave commuters and married students untouched. Why such a distinction should exist is not clear. A still more vital objection to the $100,000 tithe is that a rent rise hurts the veteran more than a boost in tuition. For an increase in rent must come from the veteran's meager subsistence allowance, or, if that is used up, from his personal savings, while a tuition boost...
...seven weeks and 841 futile ballots later, the City Council is still unable to decide which one among them shall serve as the chief executive. The filibuster has seen the Council Chamber criss-crossed by vicious political tracers, it has turned simple ambition into bitter perversity, and has delayed vital legislation. Resulting from a hopelessly disorganized political system and a calculated smear campaign by a few professional politicians, the lengthy stalemate can only give the Councilmen enough rope to hang themselves and possibly the city along with them...
While southern New England refused to budge from its demand for national review of all N.S.A. political action, the north conciliated and will request the national executive committee to censure those persons and groups which use the organization's name in partisan issues not vital to students as students...