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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Student Councils, God knows, have a tough time. Their constituents held them responsible for everything from free beer to fund collections, yet they usually have little control over such problems. Any move that could help the bedevilled councils would be a good thing...
...abortive Journal struggle left Monro so exhausted that he finessed his last term in 1934 and returned a year later to finish his College work. Meanwhile, he started to help out in the old News Office. When he finally got his degree in 1935, he stayed on there, and for the next six years worked on the far-reaching and complicated business of Harvard publicity. Simultaneously, he filled such odd jobs as correspondent for the Boston Transcript until its demise in 1941, and even took pictures for the Alumni Bulletin. (Like many good reporters, Monro can juggle a Speed-Graphic...
Provost Buck's announcement last night should come as no real surprise to anybody who has kept himself informed of the University's financial theories and present status. The Corporation has followed a rare policy in insisting that all faculties balance their own budgets without help from other sections of the University, and on the two occasions in the past when a deficit existed in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, drastic steps were taken: a ten percent expenses cut in 1940 and a tuition raise last year...
This test is to help TIME readers and their friends check their knowledge of current affairs. In recording answers, make no marks at all opposite questions. Use one of the answer sheets printed with the test: sheets for four persons are provided. After taking the test, check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of the test, entering the number of right answers as your score on the answer sheet...
...same today. Truce has been imposed several times by a United Nations Good Offices Committee, composed of the United States, Belgium, and Australia, but both sides have disregarded its directives. The Renville Agreement of January, 1948, did little but restate the ambiguities of Lingajatti and proved abortive. With the help of a complete blockade of Republican territory, the Dutch were playing on time--snipping off pieces of nationalist holdings and converting them to pro-Dutch states. On December 19, Dutch paratroops descended on Jokjakaria and captured the heads of the Republican government, saying that it was no longer capable...