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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Final tabulation of the 1100-odd ballots received showed that only five per cent of the student body definitely opposed an international union, while 83 per cent were in favor of surrendering to the international organization the power of issuing a binding declaration of war on "delinquent nations." Ninety-two per cent would give it vote power over policies of member nations if they are judged harmful to the maintenance of world peace...
Confidence in the part that Russia can play in the post-war world was shown by the large majority who voted that Russia would cooperate in maintaining peace after the war. Eighty-seven per cent, furthermore, were in favor of re-educating Germany to a position of equality as soon as is possible, and only one-fourth of those voting urged that Germany be partitioned...
...national sphere, a majority of Harvard undergraduates recorded themselves as in favor of more government regulation than existed in 1938. Twenty-seven per cent thought this control too extensive; the remaining one-fifth recommended that it be kept about the same...
Shouldering up to a $35,90 first place this week, Kirkland House shot past Winthrop, its nearest competitor, in the topsy-turvy War Bond race. After that, it was rather a matter of cents rather than dollars that separated the Houses. Winthrop's $20.60 topped Adam's $19.80 contribution, while Leverett boasted a $16.80 total. A slim dime was the sole determinant between Dunster's $16.50 and Eliot's $16.40; while all House sales added to a 7 cent per capita hand-out throughout the College...
...more than forty per cent of Harvard undergraduate have not heard of Churchill's "Empire Speech," probably less than ten per cent have heard of Victor Alter and Henrich Erlich. Yet the execution of these two Polish Jewish labor leaders by the Russian government is perhaps more important than any other event this year. That the Russian government, our allies, have found it impossible to forget the age-old Socialist-Communist enmity, even in the face of fascism that both are fighting, is a significant and provocative lesson...