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In factory parlance the ugly word for it is absenteeism. In many a factory, girls now take time off for shopping, for tea, for almost anything that seems important to a woman at the moment-though women with close relatives in the services are apt to be among the most...
First job undertaken was the painting of the walls. This the University did but the students bought cream-colored cloth with which to cover the blackboards, remnants of the old class-room days. Dean Sperry, heartily agreeing with their plans, presented them with the old altar from Appleton Chapel, since...
To some 6,000,000 newspaper readers this week goes the syndicated Sunday magazine section This Week in a new format. Cut down to Collier's-size, its new make-up eliminates "jumps," or run-overs to back pages. Its editorial ingredients are 52% articles, 48% fiction, as against...
Seven department and two divisional chairmanships have changed hands as College opens this fall, in one of the largest administrative turn-overs in recent years. Also to become effective this year is the discontinuance of two divisions.
One of the least desirable jobs in Russia is that of the People's Commissar for Agriculture. Among his many nightmares: Supposing ignorant peasants in Siberia leave their shiny new tractors out in the snow? Supposing collective farmers begin to act like rugged individualists in the Ukraine? In these...