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...dress, ownership of automobiles, and other needless red tape which plagues the student at most prep schools and at too many colleges. A citizen in the Harvard community is regarded as such. Yet, though the liquor and cut liberalizations were put through here long ago, the parietal rules still lag behind those of Yale and Princeton. At present a Student Council committee is investigating the logic which distinguishes parietal discipline from supervision over the student's other private affairs at college...
...lag in aircraft and engine production was easier to see than the intricacies of such production, the technical strivings to make better planes and make them faster. Delayed Army camps made headlines, exposing stupidities and mistakes; the camps that ran on schedule were as unnoticed as the majors, colonels, contractors, carpenters who somehow surmounted Army bureaucracy, bad weather, bad unions, bad luck, and got their particular jobs done on time. Many a "lag" was in fact no lag in actual production or planning, but a confession that somebody had promised the impossible...
...maintain that it is the work of one Paul Bunyan who can be seen slipping casually through the Streets of Cambridge every Saturday evening after the football games; there is still a third school of thought, originating from the Sociology department, which insists that the monument indicates a cultural lag in the minds of those who accepted it and placed it in the Yard...
...active were all steel mills last week that pig-iron production had begun to lag behind them. Steelmen therefore upped their purchases of scrap, the alternate ingredient used with or instead of pig iron. Last week they grumbled because they had bid the price up $2 in ten days to $21. They grumbled also because the Defense Commission still sanctioned scrap exports...
...search for native oracles of U. S. fashion is an old one. Hollywood, with a lag between picture production and release, has long had to anticipate (or rise above) the coming styles. Its designers-led by M. G. M.'s Adrian-have a cachet of their own. Last week Hollywood Agent Mitchell J. (for Joseph) Hamilburg, who sold $1,000,000 worth (retail) of Deanna Durbin frocks to the trade in 1938, was organizing a fashion guild of studio designers to dictate the mode. Main drawbacks to Hollywood as a complete substitute for Paris (it has influenced Paris) were...