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...What a thrill to see the cover picture of a Senator who is too much of a coward to permit Americans a referendum on the civil rights question. He seems to think he was elected to cram legislation down the throats of people he thinks are too dumb to know what they want...
...most star-studded Faculties of its history. Josiah Royce, Herbert Palmer, George Santayana, George Lyman Kittredge, Charles Townsend Copeland and George Baker have made this era known as the Golden Age of the Yard. Nevertheless, most students were satisfied with the "gentleman's C" often acquired through last minute cram courses at private tutoring schools. Faculty members met the problem of a rather disinterested student body in different ways. Kittredge maintained stern discipline during his lectures. If a student left the room when the bell rang and Kittredge was still speaking he would walk out in the hall and bring...
...tutoring schools. The CRIMSON initiated the campaign charging that the tutoring schools were an organized vice racket which violated ethics of the University. Its front page editorial began "Lined up on Massachusetts Avenue, grinning down over Harvard Yard, there is a row of intellectual brothels." The paper denounced the "cram parlors" and called for the Administration to "force the lids off the sewer holes, to shine the light of day on the putrefaction within." Within three years all the tutoring schools were closed...
...Cram Courses. Foundation grants of $363,000 will pay for some basic necessities. Faculty salary ceilings will be raised from $6,500 to $8,000, to slow down a high turnover rate. The library will be expanded beyond its meager list of 33,000 titles. Brown's share of the job will be to supply what money cannot buy: higher academic standards...
...were reduced by lenses and focused one by one on the dye. After each exposure the film was moved mechanically to array the tiny pages in close-packed rows. This miracle of miniaturization, which makes the traditional Lord's Prayer engraved on a pinhead seem downright brobdingnagian, can cram 1,000,000 book pages on a stack of 3-in. by 5-in. index cards about 4 in. high. It could pack all the books in the Library of Congress into six ordinary filing cabinets. To read one of these literary slides, a viewer can use a device similar...