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...Secondly, because the entire membership o Brook House "is composed of Harvard students," and thirdly, because PBH is at present in dire financial need which jeopardizes its philanthropic program to the point where activities will have to be drastically curtailed...
...help interpret France to the world, Réaltiés launched an English-language edition in 1950, despite dire warnings that a foreign magazine (particularly at $15 a year) could not compete for readers and advertisers on the crowded U.S. market. After dropping $110,000, the English edition has built the biggest U.S. circulation (39,000) of any foreign publication, will start making money by year...
...parties, couples staggering out onto the streets recklessly drunk, and crack-ups on the road back to Wellesley. Yet in extending room hours to 11 p.m. for ordinary weekends three years ago, the Masters undertook a similar risk, and the results have been encouraging. In sharp contrast to the dire predictions of the Faculty, few students have abused their new privilege. Undergraduates have shown that they are capable of responsible social behavior on ordinary Saturdays. They deserve the Faculty's confidence on football weekends...
...that he aroused a strongly maternal feeling in his audience. One fan wrote: "It takes a real man to get up there week after week-with that silver plate in his head." So many others warmly congratulated him for his triumph over facial paralysis, a twisted spine and other dire but imaginary ills that Sullivan has about given up protesting that he has always been sound of wind and limb...
From pulpit and bench, from social workers and editorial writers, the U.S. regularly hears dire warnings about the growth of juvenile delinquency and the crisis this implies for urban civilization. Nonsense, says Dr. Lauretta Bender, senior psychiatrist at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital; the proportion of juvenile crime to urban population is no greater now than it was at the turn of the century. The interesting psychological question, she told a law-school forum at New York University last week, is: "Why are so many of our children not delinquent?" "Children have an amazing capacity to tolerate bad parents, poor...