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...play a more important part in the community activities of its women readers. Last winter 2,973 women's clubs made TIME the basis for their current event studies and forum discussions ; and so great is their interest that we have had to organize a special Club Bureau under Florence Williams to cooperate with them. When we first started the Bureau we wondered whether its staff of one would have enough to do. Now the Bureau sends out an average of 452 letters or specially-asked-for services a day-and Miss Williams needs a secretary and four assistants...
Miss Williams and her assistants wish they could accept all the bids they get to spend vacations with club officers everywhere from Maine to Southern California-and just after Pearl Harbor a chairman of the Missouri Women's Clubs jokingly invited the Club Bureau's entire staff to share their bomb shelter in Marvel Cave. In fact, the national offices of most of the women's clubs have given the Bureau so much personal advice and practical encouragement that by now Miss Williams is not sure always whether her procedures grew out of her own thinking...
Dean Henry Chauncey last night suggested that Stimson's remarks emphasized the warning of the McNutt report of last week that college students could not be sure of finishing their course of study. Dr. Richard Leopold, acting head of the War Service Information Bureau, added that the Enlisted Reserve would still be advantageous under present conditions for students...
Discussing a program such as recommended by the Council, Elliott Perkins, director of the War Service Bureau, reported last night that under an agreement with the Navy, all men in the V-1 program would have to exercise a minimum of four periods each week, and that some arrangement would have to be made for them if the request were acted upon by the Faculty...
Receiving only articles found in the Yard since all the laboratories and lecture halls across Cambridge Street maintain their own lost and found deposits, the Grays Hall bureau handles about 300 articles each year...