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...conceivably could make further expense cuts of the sort that have created the current dearth of tutorial. The administration views such cuts uneasily because they would impair the quality of education at Harvard. Nor would they stand up logically in the face of the fact that the return to normal enrollment will be an advantage only insofar as it can unburden the physical plant and return educational standards to the prewar level...
...season. Coach Lamar keeps pretty mum about his choices for most of the squad spots and in Freshman football anything can happen in the course of a season. But a look at the '51 roster and the spirited practices held so far indicate that Coach Lamar will have no dearth of talent in this group of gridders playing together for the first time...
Boomerang? At least part of Hollywood's movie community was not nearly so angry as Representative Worley. There were many, particularly among independent producers, who considered the Johnston Office's action too rash. A prolonged dearth of U.S. films, they thought, might give the British industry an opportunity to cop the home market for good...
Brooks, ordinarily Freshman coach but in charge of all the Athletic Building's aquatic activities for the summer, eleminated the diving events from the meet's calendar because of a dearth of talent and the "lack of real competition in diving, which can almost be decided beforehand when you have only a few, inexperienced entries...
Tightening business conditions forced another concern to shut up shop last Thursday when The Eliot House Grill closed its door for the summer because of the dearth of patrons. Famous as the home of the best hamburger in the University the Grill failed to attract enough lovers of the onion covered delicacy to show a coupon profit...