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...records of members in the services who study under the Army Institute program, Dean--Buck announced last night following a formal vote of approval by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Faculty, however, registered its emphatic disapproval of granting credit without regard for educational achievements on a blanket basis...
Immediately after the start of the war, educators were worried lent there be a repetition of the chaotic 1918-1919 system of granting blanket credit on a basis of total time in the service. During those years, colleges throughout the nation vied with each other in giving such credit, and thousands of failures resulted...
...Rzhev. Six hundred miles to the north, west of Moscow, the Russians had launched another offense. It began, as the one in Stalingrad began, with an artillery barrage. The Moscow front lay under a white blanket of snow. Cossack cavalrymen wrapped their horses' hoofs in burlap to deaden the sound and get a better footing on hard crust. Artillery was mounted on skis. On their first plunge into the deep and long-held German defenses the Russians reached the village of Velikie Luki, 90 miles from the border of Latvia...
Soviet scouts in the outskirts of Stalingrad bagged the season's first typical winter German. His head was wrapped in a woman's shawl looted from some Russian peasant hut. A threadbare blanket with a hole cut in the middle served him as a poncho. The Red Army men, dressed in the standard winter sheepskin shubas (coats), fleece-lined caps and warm valenki (knee-high felt boots), seized the shivering Fritz as he stood sentry duty over a zigzag trench full of freezing Germans. All he could mumble was "holodno" (cold...
Behind the battle lines in North Africa, from beneath the deadening blanket thrown over all France by Hitler's occupation of the Vichy zone, emerged the specter of French politics. The week's events, starting from the innocent assumption of U.S. military men that control of French Northwest Africa had best be given into trusted and experienced French hands, soon threatened to split Allied feelings along the well-known line of Vichy v. De Gaulle...