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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic Advisory Council could not have cared less, because it was operating on a theory-one often espoused by the British Labor Party and advocated in the U.S. by Leon Keyserling, chairman of President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers. Criticizing Republicans for allowing "persistent inflation," the Democratic Advisory Council manifesto said...
Moving West. The exact shape of Poland today (as so often in the past) is not the result of nature or of justice, but of the machinations of outsiders. In the closing months of World War II, the Russians coolly announced that they intended to keep permanently the 68,667 sq. mi. of eastern Poland, beyond the so-called Curzon line, which they had grabbed in the piping days of the Nazi-Soviet Pact. As compensation, Stalin proposed to give the Poles large chunks of the provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia-all in all, some...
...certain number of academic leftovers in a House and not all of them are going to be anxious to prepare for the junior examination which would make them eligible for Honors again. In short, there are a certain number of non-Honors "types" in the College, and they are often as creative and productive members of the community as the scholars. Clearly, academic policy must include provisions for this group...
...Often considered a compromise between a major in English and a major in History, History and Lit is in fact an older field of concentration than either of its would-be parents. When the field was established in 1906, the College was under President Eliot's free elective system. A student might take 16 totally unrelated courses and, after passing each one, would never again be asked to remember what he had learned...
...Colonel. Consistently funny and often touching is this lesson in lifemanship taught by a meek, ingenious Polish refugee (Danny Kaye). His unwilling pupil: a blustering, medieval-minded Polish officer (Curt Jurgens...