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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the present number of students in the University exceeds the 1941 total by 65 percent, figures show a 5.7 percent decrease in enrollment since last year. The decline follows the trend indicated in a recent New York Times survey...
This increase does not come in freshman classes which show a 7.8 percent decline from last year in the national scene as well as 16.7 percent decrease at Harvard. Because of the large number of college graduates during the recent years, when a great number of veterans returned to school, the graduate schools have had to bear the brunt of the increase...
There are a sufficient number of criminal statutes on the books to convict those who are guilty of subversive activity; instead of loyalty oaths, to muzzle the growth and exchange of free opinion, what is needed is an understanding that those who foster and use undemocratic instruments such as loyalty oaths also foster an undemocratic society. Unless the use of such oaths and other similar practices are discontinued, freedom of thought and expression will be completely effacted, and Navy-sponsored snoopers and back fence peeping-toms will not be limited to the Harvard campus. Irwin Gostin...
...process. Now there is not doubt that sports, even though played mainly for relaxation and exercise, can contribute toward instilling the attitudes and mental skills approved by "general education." We are endlessly bombarded with pretty sentiments about how contact with teammates develops the players discipline, self-confidence and a number of other social traits--all very true and very important. Still we should no overlook the fact that athletics provide a creative expression of a type not encouraged in the classroom. There is an intellectual as well as a social dimension to teamwork. Judgment, predictive insight, social intelligence...
Harvard, however, unveiled a potentially strong forward attack Saturday night despite the fact that a number of its ten goals came from smart individual play and not team passwork...