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Students from 38 foreign countries, comprising the largest undergraduate contingent from abroad in College history, helped crowd classrooms in the Yard yesterday as Cambridge settled down to another academic year...
...method of safe-guarding Middle Eastern oil is too costly. She is prepared to discard her mandate if the UN or some other group assumes the burdens of immigration and partition. Belligerently sprawled across the last lap is the Arab League, spewing forth a strange variety of threats, the largest of which is a warning that all Arab economic and cultural ties with the West will be severed at the outset of partition. This threat rings hollow because the financial and industrial concessions granted by the West in exchange for Arab oil and air rights are the very life blood...
Among the business opportunities advertised in the New York Times was a tempting come-on. On the block was a manufacturing business which was "absolute leader in its field. . . . Present production volume largest in history. . . . Because the well-to-do owners are obliged to put their affairs in more liquid condition they will accept a fraction of the real value of the business...
...Largest of the committees is that devoted to social service, which leads boys clubs in 41 settlement houses in greater Boston. Brooks House also operates a ticket agency...
Pressed to accommodate the largest enrollment in Harvard's 811 years, housing officials over the weekend moved to squeeze 20 more residents into each of the Houses, prefacing the registration today of 4,250 students returning from the spring and summer-terms...