Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know much about economics. I'm a business man." This is how William H. Claflin, Jr. '15, describes himself in regard to his position as Treasurer of the University. Claflin insists that he performs his main job, the investment of Harvard's money, under the influence of no economic policy. When Edward Reynolds '15, administrative vice-President, replaced Claflin at the last minute to speak before the Associated Harvard Clubs in Milwaukee last spring, he said that "we just try to do the best we can under existing circumstances . . . we try to buy values, not hopes...
...iron-clad Yale game rule burdens the coaching staffs in the key game of the year with the knowledge that they must play all the men who rate awards. "If the score had been 21 to 21," Dick Harlow said after the last Yale game, "I'm afraid a lot of kids wouldn't have gotten their letters." Injured men patently cannot play in a game, Yale or otherwise, and there have been cases in the past where a man got an early season broken leg instead...
Students last night named Charles H. Taylor '21, Henry Lea Professor of Medieval History, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, as the worst offenders. A quick investigation of New Lecture Hall, where Taylor's course, History 1, is given showed no panic-bars are provided. Many students, especially of History 1, were willing to agree that New Lecture Hall was one of the worst fire-traps in Cambridge...
Chairman of the Committee on Admissions Richard M. Gummere declared that because first term Freshman courses will not be offered for the spring term, new men would find their choice of courses severely limited...
...nation that bases its entire political structure on a shifting and complex mass of minor parties, any coordinated government becomes a highly dubious proposition. France is the home of such small fry. Its National Assembly is composed of every political shade from rabid red to gouty blue. M. Schuman must compose these squabbling factions if he even dreams of a successful regime. His only real hope lies in the tremendous mandate of 412 votes to 184 awarded him by the Assembly...