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...Faculty Committee on the Houses voted last Wednesday to extend House parietal hours to midnight on Saturday evenings after home football games. The Committee thus restored to the large fraction of Harvard undergraduates who ignore football games the privileges they would ordinarily have had if another large fraction did not ignore them. Hurrah...
...Pinch. To the camponês, no price is too steep to escape the misery of his own backward land, where full-time jobs are scarce and wage scales a fraction of those in France. Since 1959, nearly 150,000 peasants have emigrated to France-most of them illegally. The majority live in squalor in such growing slum areas as the Melun shantytown on the outskirts of Paris. Faithfully, they send large parts of their paychecks home: last year their remittances added nearly $40 million to Dictator Antonio Salazar's economy...
...real difficulty comes when they go on to these specialized topics. But in this instance, a simple expansion of the social studies staff would do little to solve the problem. It would clearly be impossible to add enough members of the staff to cover even a fraction of the particular problems which people will want to do research on; and even with a growth in tutors, outside help will be necessary. Admittedly this raises problems (as it does for people in other departments who must go outside for assistance); but since it is inherent in the organization of the University...
...lakes. The dry land was devoid of life; the atmosphere may have been unbreathable for most mod ern creatures. But in shallow pools, say the paleontologists, a dim kind of life was stirring. The bottom was covered with hard hummocks - mounds made of tight-packed vertical columns, a fraction of an inch in diameter, that were created by living matter...
About one-fourth of South Caroli na's 800 Methodist churches are withholding contributions to an Interdenominational Cooperation Fund because a fraction of the money goes to the National Council. Recently the Knoxville presbytery formally resolved that the parent Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (the Southern Presbyterians) should withdraw from membership in the council, a motion that may well be seconded by a dozen more presbyteries at this year's General Assembly. Episcopalians in Southern California who belong to the archconservative Society of St. Athanasius have made a number of motions at church financecommittee meetings to withhold funds...