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Rooms in Dunster either overlook the beautiful Charles River--or they don't. If they don't one is apt to get a rather uninspiring view of the drab tenements which surround the House. All Dunster rooms were meant originally to be either doubles or singles--with crowded conditions many were converted into triples, but that is about as big as they...
Besides the size of the House, another disadvantage of Eliot is the fact that many of its rooms overlook the subway yards or the central Kitchen delivery-way. Many, on the other hand, have a commanding view of the Charles
...Social Relations Department, while trying to eliminate malpractices among its thesis-writing students, has chosen to overlook a particularly outrageous policy on the part of its thesis-supervising faculty members. These professors, anxious to complete a pet research project, simply assign the problem to a willing senior, putting office staff, equipment, and expense accounts at his disposal, and later accepting his results as an honors thesis. Thus students in other departments, working independently, must watch a privileged few get their ideas and procedures devised by faculty members and handed to them on a silver platter. This is especially unfair...
What Mr. Jordan seems to overlook is that football is very much the business of college presidents, as long as the presidents set the educational policies of their institutions. The suggestions of the presidents' committee, even it some of the committee members have not always practiced what they preach, come much closer to striking at the fundamental evils of the present situation than does Mr. Jordan's program. And the Jordan scheme would be extremely difficult to administer, let alone enforce...
During the past year, the leftward tilt of the balance has halted, in a change so subtle that people of the Western world might overlook it. But the signs are there: three former enemies of Russia-Japan, West Germany (including the vital Ruhr) and Italy-are now in the Western camp; a NATO army is forming; the gigantic U.S. industrial potential, to which Stalin paid respectful tribute in World War II, is beginning to Stir...