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Congress, caught in an election year with a paucity of real issues, is beginning to wield the economy axe on those agencies which it considers nonessential to the war effort. Included in that category are the NYA and CCC. Senator McKellar's Committee on Education and Labor is now considering a bill which abolishes the two and saves about $310,000,000. Despite strong Administration pressure to kill the bill, there is a very good chance that it will be passed by a Congress anxious to "get something done...
...papers are reporting that Ed Leader, whose crews have lost to Harvard for five straight years, may be the next to feel the Miller axe. Leader, who produced sensational crews in years past, has had eights in recent seasons that, although setting record times, have been beaten. Whether any more contracts will fall is doubtful, but enough have been let go to enable the papers to call the action "the most extensive house cleaning in the history of any major school...
...students for service in the armed forces will be in the case of participants in seasonal sports. Men on the football team will not be required to practice for the Harvard game by splitting rails, but as soon as the season is over they will come back to the axe...
...Cleft Ma with the Meat Axe?", an original skit written and executed by the Grays Hall Boys, will be one of the highlights of the program, the show includes a number of original song hits by Oliver Filley...
...either are uncuttable because of endowment bequests or are assets too desirable to be reduced. People who leave money to Harvard usually tie it up for definite ends, such as museums and rare book libraries. These are luxuries, but the terms of the gifts preclude the use of the axe. Besides, although they are luxuries they are the element of the University which sets it apart from other institutions...