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...orientation programs and discussion groups the Army has endeavored to promote thought and interest in current events, postwar problems, etc. . . . And now comes along a Congress filled with frightened partisans who do not want to burden "our boys," or enlighten them, with political topics...
...those Wednesday evening forums, with Lieut. McConnell presiding while Captain McIntosh, Lieut. Ashler, Lieut. Bill, our staff members, or others "in the know" enlighten us as to what goes on outside Cambridge, or that Sunday afternoon picnic with the Com students from across the way reminded us of the good old summertime at home, the inspiring and impressive concert at the Esplanade last Saturday night in honor of the WAVES in general...
...sufficient rubber stockpile, punched Mr. Meyer at a Washington party; WPB cut out the use of iron and steel in golf clubs 50%; pink-cheeked Gaston Henry-Haye, Ambassador of Vichyfrance, presented Franklin Roosevelt with a bound volume of the speeches of Marshal Petain to "enlighten" the President on the "general principles that the Marshal is following...
Members of Harvard's Graduate Schools will address the student body over the Crimson Network beginning next Monday night, discussing the opportunities which the schools, now affected by the war, can offer to undergraduates. These talks, designed to enlighten many whose future is very uncertain, are to be given every Monday and Wednesday evening from 9:45 to 10 o'clock...
...Chinese last week was doing his quiet bit to enlighten Manhattanites on a subject of great current interest to China-India. C. T. Loo, noted dealer and connoisseur, after a quarter-century of patient collecting, opened a display of "The Sculpture of Greater India." The people who went to contemplate his 69 hard-won pieces in stone and bronze were mainly Mr. Loo's friends-museum curators, students, artists. While the learned visitors took their tea, found a corner for sketching, or discussed the possible influence of Buddha upon Christ, the gods of ancient India-Brahma, Siva, Vishnu, Buddha...