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Here then is an opportunity for the Annex. We know of no stronger argument for co-education at Harvard than this. With athletics abolished or practically nullified the co-educational student will arise in her persuasive might and assert her claims as a collegiate guardian of good morals and good order. Such will be the Harvard of the future. --reprinted from the HERALD-CRIMSON February...
...since the Big Five countries are designated permanent members of the UNAEC, the West will probably always have a majority on the Commission. Thus, under the proposed plan, Russian industrial development of atomic energy, if only for peaceful purposes, would be controlled by nations favoring the U.S., Soviet delegates assert. As for the "stages" aspect, the USSR claims that it was placed there to preserve the U.S. monopoly of bombs--which existed in 1946--until the U.S. could be certain of its ability to control atomic production throughout the world...
Snapped Rossellini: "Whether she is or is not is nobody's affair. I think that report deserves neither denial nor confirmation, because it is an attempt to pry into the private life of a woman who, to assert her right to her own life, has given up her career . . . Isn't that enough...
Said the manifesto: "We assert that economic and political democracy are inseparable . . . [We call on the world's workers to] unite with us to achieve a world in which people are free from Communist, Fascist, Falangist and other forms of totalitarianism...
This letter has but one purpose: to protest against any action by Harvard University or alumni giving preference of aid to athletes who apply to Harvard College. I should like to assert that I am as great a sports fan as anyone at Harvard. I had spent more time playing sports than I had eating, attending school, seeing movies, shows, etc., reading, riding on bicycles, cars, trains, streetcars, and busses, listening to the radio, or writing until I got polio when I was 14 years old. Nor have I ceased to play sports since I recovered from my attack: only...