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This is the second Commencement meeting since the Korean War began, the second time I have had the opportunity of reporting to the alumni on the impact of partial mobilization on the University. As a year ago, we are still basing our plans on the assumption that the mobilization will be partial not total in the years ahead; in short, that this country will not be faced with a global war. Even so, the strains of this period of high international tension are felt within the University and present us with special problems of which I wish to speak very...
...serious consequences of the pressures of this period of rearmament is the diversion of scholars to immediate problems. Partial mobilization has accentuated the trend toward overemphasis on the practical which is a consequence of the type of society in which we live. For example, in the biological sciences the clamor is for a cure for cancer rather then an understanding of the processes of growth normal and abnormal. In the physical sciences some of our best men are now spending long hours on military problems. This is a national necessity, but a loss to the advance of science. Technology...
...Within a few days," the judge related, "the jury returned seven indictments for criminal tax fraud." Then, to his consternation, the jury stopped dead in its tracks and issued an almost unprecedented "partial report," which stated that it had been unable to find any signs that "influence lawyers" had successfully quashed tax-fraud cases. Judge Moore indignantly rejected the report and put the grand jury back to work. Then he tried to find out who had been responsible for the whitewash report. In last week's deposition he pointed his judicial finger directly at Ellis Slack, 51, then...
...Steel's hard-nosed attitude. To compensate for wage increases, Steel wanted sizable price increases. The Administration was openly boasting that Steel would get no such thing. So Steel's refusal to bargain with Phil Murray was its only lever in its bargaining with the hostile and partial Government. Said Ben Fairless in Cincinnati last November: "Whether our workers are to get a raise, and how much it will be if they do, is a matter which probably cannot be determined by collective bargaining, and will apparently have to be decided finally in Washington...
...artists prefer portraiture to other forms of painting; very few excel at it. Portraits afford little opportunity for imagination or self-expression, but they require a full measure of two great qualities: clarity of observation and rendition. The public is nevertheless partial to portraits, especially those of women & children. The four reproduced on the opposite page are public favorites at four U.S. museums...