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Over one-half of the undergraduates, and almost two-fifths of the Faculty and male employees who filled out the Civilian Defense Committee questionnaire indicated that they would be able to devote time to civilian defense work, it was learned Saturday from a partial tabulation of the cards, which were distributed through-out the University early in January...
Marianne Moore's poetry is a small museum full of such devotedly matter-of-fact observations. In What Are Years are reindeer, ostriches, paperweights, pangolins, college students, paper nautiluses, quartz-crystal clocks, butterflies, Negroes, France, speech, patch-box inscriptions, triskelions and juniper boughs-a partial list. These things Moore treats not as subject matter but as object matter; and she sees in their essential structure object lessons about the Creation in which man finds himself...
...from home for not nine, but twelve full months a year. And when he's likely to be toting a rifle for Uncle Sam at any time, those extra months at home mean a lot. An obvious answer to this problem lies in allowing him to receive at least partial credit for work done at an approved college near his home. But the University's present ruling which denies credit for courses taken at any summer school but Harvard's makes this way out nothing more than a blind alley...
...solutions to these problems came out of Chicago last week. Defense Transport Tsar Joseph Eastman warned the transitmen that the railroads, with "a herculean job in the movement of troops," could not be expected to carry any more of the local passenger load. The conferees all agreed on one partial solution: staggered work hours for local businesses, schools, etc. Washington greatly eased its frightful traffic tie-ups by putting Government departments on staggered schedules...
...when he will go away. But the Faculty realizes that the University can render an immeasurable service in this emergency, and each member is willing to assume increased academic and financial burdens to see "not only that specialists are trained but that students shall receive at least a partial college education before they are called into the service of the country...