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...definite plans have yet been made for the occupation of McKinlock, declared Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager. When the ASTP closed here December 2, those members of the 66th Army Air Force Base Unit (Weather-Wings) quartered in McKinlock were transferred to Dunster House to enable the Army to turn the hall back to the College...
Whether civilians will be moved into McKinlock for the spring term depends entirely upon the size of civilian undergraduate enrollment, asserted Durant. At present, he said, it is impossible to make any definite statement concerning the immediate future use of the hall...
...Checks & Balances. The fate of Rome haunts a modern world that has been unable to solve its own social problems, either domestic or international, and Durant makes the most of hundreds of parallels. Rome, like the U.S.A., discovered the secret of check-&-balance republican government, yet forgot its secret when the clamor of pressure groups broke down the old tradition of limited terms of office. A Cincinnatus, called from his plow to save the State, returned to his farm as soon as the crisis was over. But when Sulla and Julius Caesar violated the precedent, the Republic sank back into...
...Growth of the State. In attempting to account for the long decline and fall of Rome, Durant adopts a "multiple causation" theory. The metals in the Roman State-owned mines ran out. As the old freehold farming class lost its lands to the big owners of the latifundia, the productivity of the soil decreased. The State dole of grain brought men into the cities to join the workless proletariat, and the spoil of Spain, Gaul, Syria and Egypt made Romans think less and less about making fortunes through honest labor...
...Will Durant, giving full, colorful treatment to Roman culture and everyday life, does not labor the modern political and social analogies. But no reader of Caesar and Christ can fail to miss them...