Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know who your informant was, but there just was not a word of truth in it. It did not happen to me at any time, or at any place...
...midway of last week, things began to happen. It was plain that Japan's answer was being given, not in words in Washington, but in troop movements in the Far East. In Tokyo U.S. Ambassador Grew and Foreign Minister Togo were minding their diplomatic Ps & Qs, but Japanese troops were pouring into French Indo-China, threatening the Burma Road...
...University investments in stocks, for instance, probably won't go up despite the defense boom. In fact, they're likely to go down on account of increased taxes. As for the bonds, which comprise the other half, not even the Harvard Economics Department knows what is going to happen to their interest rate. Suffice it to say that the University doesn't seem to be worried on the score of its invested funds...
Maintenance of a full quota of students is certainly the major problem. So far the draft has radically affected only the Law School, which unfortunately depends more on tuition than any other branch of the University, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. What will happen to enrollment in case of war, nobody can even guess, although the example of England leaves hope that the College will not be too hard hit. But all during the emergency and after it as well, the problem will be one of lowering expenses so that tax-hit fathers will be able...
...drastic reorganization of the University in order that it may continue to exist. Not only after the emergency but during the emergency, changes will be necessary. How can the price of education be cheapened without lowering standards? Can Harvard accept Government aid as a national university? What will happen to Harvard's ever-expanding library system? What will a Harvard education mean in years to come? We cannot foresee the answers to these questions, but in the next few day's in the editorial columns of the Crimson we would like to make some guesses...