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...editorial in the same issue praised Harvard's contribution to the war effort. "This is the nucleus around which Harvard is building the major part of her war effort, along with the intense laboratory research common to all American universities. It comprises the very highest form of war-time education. . . . the final stepping stone on the road to active participation...
Composing the nucleus of the Dance Committee are five members of the Freshman Inter-house Committee...
...know, and make recommendations on a war rubber program. On its report-which is not likely to be postponed till after the elections-decisions about nationwide gas rationing and motor transportation are to be based. And if the committee does a good enough job, it may well become the nucleus of the "economic high command" of which all Washington was talking last week...
...Elton, the lemmings also surge eastward into the Baltic, northward into the Arctic. Not the whither but the whence, says Elton, explains the lemming migrations. Overcrowding and lack of food in their mountain homes move the lemmings to seek Lebensraum elsewhere. (A few reactionaries stay behind to breed the nucleus of another horde.) The lemmings are great swimmers, and since they have no way of knowing how vast the seas and oceans are, plunge in and perish in their pride...
Since the Middle Ages, the urban cell has grown out of all recognition. Its neat structure has become disorganized, its central nucleus diseased with slums, its circulation impeded by industrial growths and clotted traffic. "When a city grows compact, as when a forest grows compact," says Saarinen, "it withers...