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...side of the heaviest battalions, but both sides always claim Him. Last week smooth, pudgy, pipe-smoking Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka of Japan, who has never lacked for grandiloquence, issued a gloomy New Year's message which set a new high for God-claiming, seemed to assign the deity a position at the side of, and somewhat inferior to, Yosuke Matsuoka himself...
College officials attribute the decline in course papers to "administrative difficulties." Few professors, they say, can afford the time necessary to assign original topics, assist students individually, and mark papers. But if hour exams, whenever practicable, were abolished, course staffs would be able to give more time to going over long essays. Opponents of the course thesis point out that 20 years ago Harvard went to extremes in demanding written work. Then every history course required either a thesis or essay, and much of the work submitted was more hastily thrown together than an English A assignment; many papers were...
Despite these "administrative difficulties," the College should find a way to make sure that every undergraduate does some constructive written work. One solution would be to assign extra assistants to those courses which are best adapted for original research theses. Another remedy would be to tone up the tutorial system so that everyone, whether on Plan A or Plan B, would have to write at least one paper a year on a subject which would require analysis of source material. At present some tutors demand b1-weekly essays while others see their tutees no more often than twice a term...
...again Friend Carnegie was helpful in getting the material into shape, and presently Thomas headed for England, where he wowed the Britishers with his tales of Lawrence in Arabia, Allenby in Palestine. So popular was the Lawrence show that Thomas was able to travel round the world with it, assign Carnegie and lesser vocal lights to handle four second-string companies in England. Altogether, Thomas delivered "With Lawrence in Arabia" over 4,000 times, to over 3,000,000 people, made over a million dollars from it. By product from his lecture was the book With Lawrence in Arabia...
Five days later, local boards will assign a serial number to each registrant (thousands will have the same number). Then follows lottery day, when a suitable dignitary (Franklin Roosevelt, for instance) will reach into the same glass bowl from which the first World War I number (258) was drawn in 1917, will pull out one of thousands of jumbled capsules. Each capsule will contain a numbered slip. Registrants holding the drawn numbers will be the first to receive detailed questionnaires, probing into every aspect of jobs, dependents, special qualifications, reasons (if any) for requesting exemption. Other lotteries will follow...