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...last May, enough U. S. citizens to impress any politician were actively worried about two related problems: 1) the increase in their taxes, 2) the steady increase in the national debt after all the U. S. Government's tax collections. But when Hitler pushed back the U. S. frontier from the Rhine to the English Channel, these problems were swept aside by a single burning demand-Total Defense. To emergency-conscious U. S. citizens, the job presented itself as one of planes, tanks, guns, not their cost. But to businessmen and economists, one question remained: how to finance Total...
After paying tribute to the democratic practice of petitioning, the editorial says of the noted History 1 montor, "He has a right to his opinion, of course, as an American citizen. But he has no more right to impress his opinions on the student body, or any part of it, and indeed, not as much, as the students have to voice their views by the most direct, orderly and effective method at their command...
...geology of the world. Perhaps Vag might not have been so disconsolate if Geology covered only the field of geology. But as it was, Geology included astronomy, biology, paleontology, zoology, and a host of other "ologies." And Vag was feeling despondent because every one of these fields seemed to impress him with his own insignificance...
...Note: (1) The General Laws of Massachusetts contain a broad admonition that Harvard endeavor to "impress on the minds . . . of the youth permitted in its care . . . the principles of chastity and those other virtues which are the ornament of human society." The appointment of Bertrand Russell does not contravene that clause, as Mr. Sullivan suggests. Dr. Russell has stated that while on a Harvard platform he will confine himself to his lecture subject--announced as logic and semantics--since "even if I were permitted to expound my moral views in the classroom, my own conscience would not allow...
...legislative agent of the City of Boston, who is leading the fight here against Russell, has not established his right to interfere in the Corporation's appointment. Achieving this, he must go on to prove that Russell will violate a Massachusetts general law holding that "Harvard should endeavor to impress on the minds . . . of the youth permitted in its care . . . the principles of chastity and those other virtues which are the ornaments of human society...