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Says Theologian Walter M. Horton of Oberlin: they feel that "the traditional churches have gone stale, dead, flat...
Although "it cannot be claimed that the wheat saved by Harvard alone will be sent abroad," a statement prepared by the Committee to be distributed with the ballot declares that the saving by Harvard, "along with the action of other colleges--notably Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Haverford, Oberlin, Swarthmore, and Radcliffe--as part of a general program will mean less demand on domestic grain markets. This in turn will result in larger supplies available for transshipment abroad...
Harvard has been slow to get started. Reports from Bryn Mawr, Oberlin, and Wesleyan indicate that working programs are actually under way. Radcliffe has instituted a weekly light meal and eliminated desserts twice a week. But more should be possible here, where students are allotted 4200 calories per day compared to the 3500 calories established by dietitians as the daily requirement for the active man. Even the lower figure seems gluttonous beside the UNRRA's 1500 ealory minimum diet, which is still an ideal for many Europeans. Even casual reflection on these facts should prod the well-fed conscience...
...Harvard and the University of Chicago, at Wesleyan and Oberlin, associations of clergymen are no longer looked to either for support or for direction. They are but one of the minor pressure groups with which the administration must deal. . . . Yet suggesting to the average clergyman that one of his major obligations is support of the religious program of the nearest college would evoke but little more action from him than the suggestion that he give his support to the college football team...
Hard pressed for names for its new Victory ships, the Maritime Commission announced last week that it had named 62 and would ultimately name some 40 more for U.S. colleges. Hard-bitten sailors will soon put to sea in such ivy-crowned vessels as the Harvard Victory, Oberlin Victory, Mt. Holyoke Victory...