Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While undergraduates fix their attention on the war, the Faculty has before it a proposal that would undermine Harvard education. Already it has adopted a ruling to limit tutorial instruction this summer to Senior honors candidates, and is considering the proposal that tutorial in the future be given only to men in Group IV and above. Although some Faculty members hope that the latter proposal will not be adopted, action is necessary to ensure its defeat. The main hope of intelligent self-education must not be killed by the war-time trend toward spoon-feeding students with science...
...even before Pearl Harbor. In peacetime the California Legislature permitted an unlimited number of enlistments in the Guard. Shortly after the outbreak of war, I called a special session of the Legislature to provide funds for an adequate State Guard. The Legislature saw fit, in wartime, to limit the number of Guards who could be called for active duty to a mere...
Retailers, who had feared a sharper limit on charge accounts, were relieved. The main irony was that FRB's order will hit the luxury-goods buyer hardest. The new-rich poor are prompt payers anyway, and have more cash than ever before. But the new-poor rich are notoriously "slow pay." They make a practice of paying their big bills only once or twice a year, to save interest...
...Edith Nourse Rogers, instigator of the bill, said she did not know "a human being who is opposed to the bill," and no one gainsaid her. The only things that delayed the bill were working details: whether the women should be part of the Army or separate, whether to limit enrollment, what to do about uniforms, age limits, ranks, pay. The Senate will probably pass the House bill this week, permitting the War Department to employ up to 150,000 "women of excellent character in good physical health, between the ages of 21 and 45 years and citizens...
...Navy meanwhile was sponsoring a more liberal measure to incorporate women in the Navy and Marine Corps with ranks all the way to lieutenant commander, men's pay, and no limit in numbers. The bill was stalled: the Senate NavalAffairs Committee wanted to alter it to match the Army's bill or shelve it entirely...