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...another example of the difficulties of accommodating peace-time values to war-time expediency. For it certainly is expedient that no member of '42 be forced to quit Harvard without a diploma, after seven-eighths of his work is completed. This is all the more true since the last half-year, after divisionals, is a grand loaf for most...
...automatic degrees are not the answer. Unfortunately, any action which the University takes will work as a precedent for the men who will be caught later with only a half-year to go. For there will be more such cases, even if the University goes on a twelve-months basis, unless the government announces a more liberal policy of student deferment. It would be a sad state of affairs indeed if a Harvard degree meant less after the war than it does now, simply because a system of makeshifts, loosening of standards, and wholesale war degrees was hastily adopted. There...
...difficulties in this recommendation are three-fold. There would, the Board agreed, be a lowering of standards if General Examinations were offered both at mid-years, and at the end of the year, Also, General Examinations at mid-years would place a very heavy burden on the Faculty. In the third place, they would lead to an interruption of course work during the first half-year...
...Joshua White, Jazzman Noble Sissle & orchestra, Blues Composer W. C. Handy. The show did right by Negro music and its development. In the future it also intends to do right by Negro science, literature, sport, religion. Scheduled to go on the air about once a month for the next half-year Freedom's People hopes to feature such Negro eminents as Scientist Dr. George Washington Carver, Author Langston Hughes, Artist Aaron Douglas, Fighter Joe Louis many another...
...conjunction with this offer non-resident Freshmen may pay a flat rate of $25.00 for 50 meals a half-year at the Union and fifty cents a meal, thereafter, regardless of which one; or continue, as in the past, to sign for occasional meals at the rate of 40 cents for breakfast, 60 cents for lunch, and 90 cents for dinner. Those taking advantage of the new study plan will be required to pay for 50 meals and all others may do so as they wish...