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...number of students enrolled in courses in each of these Departments has shown a slight drop from autumn standards but nothing sizable enough to be attributed to the war. Largest of these reductions was in the Fine Arts Department, where enrollment fell from 204 to 180 chiefly as a result of students in introductory courses wishing to take courses related to the war. The University rule, which permits the dividing of all full courses into half courses made such movements possible at mid-years...
...autumn afternoon Columbus' crews saw the last of the Canary Islands disappear. "By nightfall . . . the three ships had an uncharted ocean to themselves." How did Columbus know where he was on that sea? "The Admiral liked to pose as an expert in celestial navigation. . . . Yet the testimony of his own journals proves that the simple method of finding latitude from a meridional observation of the sun . . . was unknown to Columbus." He was unable to use the newly invented astrolabe, and probably had none aboard. The common quadrant was his only instrument of celestial navigation. Mostly he sailed by dead...
...life, "first at school, now at the University, which had been sweated away upon the river, earnestly peering one way and going the other." Today, of all the friendly clique of athletic esthetes, the "long-haired boys" who went down from Oxford to the R.A.F. training camps in the autumn of 1939, Australian-born Richard Hillary is the lone survivor. To tell the story of why and how they fought is his real purpose...
...plain that failure to obey these strictures to the letter had cost the Germans victory in the autumn. On the other hand, Russia had observed them in reverse-had tightened and strengthened its Army in the face of the early blows, had (by moving factories and acquiring allies) made provision to keep supply facilities from collapsing, had (with the help of a remarkable Intelligence service) watched to see when the enemy was preparing for each great charge...
...spring and summer, Leningrad would probably be tightly sealed again. Moscow would be attacked, but could hold. The Germans would make their greatest push in the south, would drive the Russians back to the Don River. There the Russians would try to stand, then in the autumn begin a counteroffensive. By that time, if Britain has succeeded in holding Suez and the Middle East, the Germans would be short of oil, men and morale. Finally, in the winter of 1942-43, with the help of the Allies in the west, the great offensive against the Reich would begin...