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Staring off with under 400 students, the new offerings were limited by a scarcity of staff and a dearth of material. Classes were purposely small to air all student suggestions, a valuable check on teaching methods. But with the trial run almost over and student opinion in favor of the scheme, plans are already afoot for larger courses. The enrollment restrictions will be lifted on all coming Humanities classes and seven new upper-group courses will grace the fall catalogue, running from Fine Arts to Far-Eastern Civilizations...
...there was no dearth of overseas voyagers. New York's LaGuardia Field in one day last week cleared a record 43 transatlantic flights with 1,143 passengers...
...quote the entire magazine here. That would be the most effective way of proving my point. The Christmas issue is a hodge-podge collection of tripe--cynically designed to startle Harvard by exposing the fact that there is no Santa Claus, a really novel idea. The Lampoon's dearth of ideas is demonstrated by their choice of material for the review column, "As Lampy Sees Them." They fall back on a pair of antique Fredrick March sagas, that no one is interested in, and write a review that is worse than the pictures something commonly thought impossible...
...Relations Department has claimed from the three older departments serve as an able and adequate, if not superabundant, uncleus of permanent talent. Of further aid has been the addition to the platforms of Social Relations of such luminaries from outside the department as Ivor Richards and Pound. Although a dearth of assistant professorships appears here as elsewhere, a surprisingly high level of personuel stability has been maintained among the younger members of the staff--the lecturers and research associates--of whom almost all are capable, and some are outstanding...
...chief obstruction, he said, is a dearth of what he called "central office facilities," which means the apparatus at the branch office used to make the connections between incoming and outgoing calls. Owing to this shortage, the Company has had to keep at least 4200 Cambridge residents on its waiting lists...