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...Council on Education's report continues: "We urge the establishment of such a plan at the earliest possible moment." In a series of editorials to follow the Crimson will consider the problems raised. Only one thing is certain: American colleges have a job to do; without the blueprints they, and the war, may be lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Give Us the Blueprints | 7/24/1942 | See Source »

Died. Casper Warren Briggs, 96, pioneer maker and distributor of magic-lantern slides; in Atlantic City. His "slip slide," showing figures that moved across a background, was one of the earliest forms of the motion picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 20, 1942 | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...change is the addition of steam-roller tactics to what was an advisory system. Planning to fill all deferred-status quotas at the earliest possible moment, Yale's advisors may assume the guise of recruiting officers. This will work little hardship on the men now in college who know the difference between V-1 and the Army enlisted reserve and who have checked on their qualifications for each, but the maze of available delayed-action enlistment plans can only add to the bewilderment of the new Freshman. High pressured into enlisting with the rest of his class within...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Men on Campus Martius | 7/15/1942 | See Source »

Best opinion was that the House, allowing time for possible "too little & too late" criticism, would pass the bill as it now stands. Then it will go to the Senate Finance Committee for a thorough reworking. But with September seemingly the earliest date for final passage, the Government was daily losing revenue on increased excise taxes which will take effect only when the bill becomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unanswered Questions | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

Floyd Stahl was able to hold batting and fielding practice on the Indians' field before the rain began again, but then had to hurry to catch the earliest afternoon train back to Cambridge. Last night he would make no statement as to whom he would send against the Tigers, saying that Lou Clay, Warren Berg, and Waldstein are all ready to start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL SQUAD GETS READY FOR PRINCETON | 5/22/1942 | See Source »

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