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...from this responsibility, others can find the experience both maturing and challenging. The alternative, a system calling for more rigid prescription of the curriculum, might prove unsatisfactory and could turn instruction into a production line, the College into a factory. It seems impossible to stimulate 5000 minds by sheer dictum...
Based on an obscure ruling that permits Colleges to place a five percent quota of non-veterans in its housing projects, the University dictum violates the entire purpose of Federal low-cost housing. In an inflationary period the 198 Cambridge and Boston units assigned Harvard represent a large percentage of the total number of apartments available to veterans living on their government allotments. The great majority of married veterans cannot compete for apartments on any but the lowest rent scale and Federal housing was designed to place decent living quarters within reach of their meager income. It seems grossly unfair...
...This dictum, pronouned after practice, had to be modified on the appearance in the medical sanctum of assistant coach Eddie Davis with a wounded second finger on his right hand. Davis, a giant tackle on the 1946 team and a present Business School student, revealed that the injured digit had been "caught in a mousetrap play...
...February 1917, the Russian people, without any help from Lenin, made a revolution that overthrew the Czar, freed political prisoners, speech and press, and organized the first and last free election in Russia's history. The Russians knew what they wanted, but Lenin knew better. A Lenin dictum was: "The people themselves do not know what is good or bad for them...
...World-Telegram and New York Journal, made a mad miscellany of friends: curators of tropical fish, kept women, bail bondsmen, wrestlers' pressagents, horse dockers, female psychiatrists. The last thing he was told about the newspaper business before he left it was a Hearst executive's dictum: "The public is interested in just three things: blood, money...