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...more can and should be done now to make the Weeks Bridge safe at night. The College should propose that the University Police be given jurisdiction over the bridge. They will be able to assign officers to patrol the bridge at night. The two MDC Police stations don't have the manpower to keep a patrolman on the bridge. And only such patrolling will prevent any further attacks on students crossing the Weeks Bridge...
...Winter Palace. But what Moscow cinema fans found really new and startling at last week's premiere of Salvo of the Aurora were a couple of the bit players. For in Salvo, after nearly 40 years as an "unperson"-that ideological limbo to which the Soviets assign their villains-Leon Trotsky had returned to the Soviet scene. Also portrayed for the first time in film since his death twelve years ago was Joseph Stalin...
After years of debate over how best to assign freshmen to the Houses, the Deans last spring pulled the worst possible compromise out of their hats. Beginning this year a nine-man Faculty committee, including four Deans, will make all decisions on the distribution of freshmen; neither students nor Faculty will be formally asked to state their preferences. If a freshman has a "substantial reason" for prefering one House over the others, he must write a letter to Dean Monro stating it. The Masters, similarly, will be "free to inform the committee of general manpower needs they would like...
...long lectures and labs, two educational devices of questionable value in which Harvard has unending faith. Small-group instruction, when available, is usually effective; lectures, on the other hand, tend to obscure general principles of their subject and confuse students with welters of detail. In general, professors do not assign reading; students are expected to dig out basic concepts on their own. It is perfectly possible to succeed with one good book and without spending the whole day in class...
...Crusade. To counteract the great conspiracy of the godless, Arrupe urged the council to draw up a basic plan for "worldwide coordinated action," to be followed by Catholics in a crusade against atheism, under "absolute obedience to the Pope." The Supreme Pontiff would then "assign various fields of labor to everyone, in order that the entire people of God may give itself vigorously to this task...