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...dispatches from abroad: "Passed by Censor." That warning has now virtually vanished from the daily U.S. press, but censorship abroad has not. Most U.S. readers, when they stop to think about it at all, realize that the news from Russia is openly censored. Fewer may know that open or indirect censorship is smothering the news in nation after nation, including some which loudly insist that they alone have true "freedom of the press...
...solar system, is so small, dim and far away (3.7 billion miles) that astronomers have seen it only as a point of light like a star, have had to estimate its size by calculating the apparent effect of its gravitation upon the motion of Neptune. Measured in this indirect way, Pluto was thought by some to be almost as big as the earth. Last week Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of Yerkes Observatory, having measured Pluto's diameter with the 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain, announced that those estimates were probably wrong...
...protest such an extravagant and indirect expenditure to attract athletes to the University. If the money must be spent on athletics, let it be used to endow the HAA and take the burden of the annual deficit off the Faculty. Spend it on a hockey rink or resumption of the training table...
Eliot's indirect influence is wide and deep, but incalculable. He has shown two generations of poets how to write. He has shown that a man can be both'clever and religious. More interesting than Eliot's influence on others, however, is the influence of others (notably his Christian predecessors) on Eliot. One compelling reason why the audiences crowd his Cocktail Party is that they recognize it, in the sense that people always recognize a compelling restatement of the old and certain truths. They like Eliot for being clever, and at the same time clear; but what...
...dormitory space in the University. The Administration has chosen to maintain the present size of the plant. To keep the income stable, therefore, it must spread a smaller population thinner. It is working toward the removal of all upperclassmen from the Yard next fall. As a result, an indirect rent rise will be felt throughout the college, with incoming freshmen bearing the heaviest load. Thinning in the Houses is the first step in this unfortunate direction...