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Mustached, polished Major Griffin, World War I infantry captain and D.S.C. man, is the wealthy publisher of the Monterey (Calif.) Peninsula Herald and president of Monterey Peninsula Broadcasting Co. World traveler and alarmed observer of the events of the '303 in Europe, he realized that one defect in army morale was that most soldiers did not appreciate how modern wars occur, did not really understand why they might have to fight...
...examine the covers of several rebound books, you will discover that some have three small ridges close to the "spines". Instead of being a defect, these ridges indicate that the book's binding is particularly strong. In such instances, the cords left by the scamstresses are actually woven into the board of the cover, but otherwise the cords are merely frayed out, flattened, and glued down...
...Liberties and National Unity." A. B. Overstreet reviews recent developments in the field of civil liberties and law enforcement, and makes a number of constructive suggestions, especially with regard to concentration of and publicity for responsibility. His all-or-nothing attitude on preservation of individual rights is the only defect of the article...
...present system is not perfect. Its chief defect has been it complexity and its size. Definite deferments should be give members of essential occupational groups such as doctors and chemists. The decision as to which workers are "necessary" should not be left so vague. Its aims of an army of four million has made the job of training the men in the limited time almost impossible. The cumbersome, half-trained army which we are in danger of having on our hands will give us only the "defense of depth" to which General Weygand referred so sanguinely for three days last...
Harvard has been subject to criticism from all sides in the past few years for failing to turn out liberally educated students, and one of the most pertinent of the claims has dealt with the over-concentration allowed by the lenient rules on distribution. The Student Council recognized this defect in the present system in its Education Committee report of last June which proposed a system of five broad, introductory courses to be required of all students. Now before the Faculty is a report from its Committee on Distribution which proposes a different solution designed to remedy this Achilles' heel...