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American prosperity is a shaky temporary structure, declared President Truman in a mid-year economic report to Congress and the public yesterday. "Basic adjustments" are called for in wages, prices, and profits, he warned, before inaction produces serious unemployment and business decline...
Helson, a Math major, received the Wister Prize--$65--as the Senior with the highest record in the fields of Music of Mathematics, while Epstein earned the Elizabeth Wilder Prize--worth $40--for turning in the best mid-year examination paper in Elementary German...
...time, before the war, when undergraduates weren't required to take hour exams. Only freshmen had to take them, on the theory that they couldn't be expected to know what a Harvard exam was like and that they'd better have some practice before those big mid-year exams in January came up for the first time. With the war, it was necessary to set up hour exams at the end of the sixth and tenth weeks for all students in the College, inasmuch as the greeting cards from the President seemed to have a singular impatience at waiting...
Only varsity outfit to remain undefeated through the mid-year campaigns, the mermen kept the slate clean for the fifth time Saturday when they were rated less than even going in. Coach Ulen's shrewd distribution of his strength, coupled with the drive of Jerry Gorman in the distance events, and the diving of Bob Aaron and Tom Drohan, was a key factor in the victory...
Students vacating or changing rooms at mid-year were urged yesterday by Robert B. Watson '37, associate dean of the College and director of undergraduate housing, to evacuate their suites immediately after their last examination to make space for men scheduled to arrive in Cambridge beginning Wednesday, January...