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Rather than force all students to place their hopes on the nose of the final, the Business School could give several two-hour exams throughout the term, weighting each one progressively heavier. It is one thing to make sure the finals get marked more fairly; it is much more important to make sure that the whole course gets examined more fairly. Under this plan, the student would get a more accurate return on his effort and actual capabilities. The last two exams should be more heavily weighted since they would become more complicated and comprehensive than the first ones...
Terminating its short career as the daily paper of the Yardling Student Officers, the Scuttlebutt, announced this morning that it would henceforth appear only on Tuesdays. Increased pressure on the men, due to heavier schedules and the increased pace of the curriculum, was given as the reason for the suspension of the daily publication...
...Australians ceased to marvel at the Jap miracle of bringing one 37-mm. gun over those mountains. In fact, they discovered they could bring heavier 25-pounders themselves when they decided to go forward over the smaller peaks. The Japs had dug trenches, set up machine-gun nests in the roots of trees, piled up log barricades-but evidently thought better of their plan to defend their foremost ridge, 88 long miles over the mountains from their Buna supply base...
...seven points: 1) heavier taxes; 2) ceilings on prices; 3) wage stabilization; 4) stabilization of farm prices; 5) war-bond sales; 6) rationing of scarce commodities; 7) discouraging buying on credit and encouraging payment of old debts...
Labor as a whole does not realize that heavy war taxes have already frozen the profits of most businesses below the prewar level. It does not realize that heavier individual surtaxes have cut into the spendable income of management to a point where many executives are going into debt to meet their current expenses. Management on its side is growing increasingly bitter over the refusal of Congress to impose any appreciable tax on the $35,000,000,000 increase in the earnings of labor since 1939. The wind has been sown, and Judge Rosenman has a man-sized job ahead...