Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard men are not replacing themselves. (This from the Population Reference Bureau of Washington, D. C.) Barring late entries, when the Class of 1924 returns to Cambridge next week it will be forced to report that it has been able to produce only 1.74 children per...
...Rooijen charges 350 guilders ($132) for a course of treatments. He does not claim success in every case; he promises to refund the fee (less 1 guilder per treatment for the first six weeks) if, after a year, there is no "clearly visible" growth of hair. The procedure is to brush the patient's scalp, apply the secret fluid, then brush the scalp again. Van Rooijen will not allow an analysis of his formula by Dutch medical men, who are skeptical of his claims.* If the doctors want to see results, says the barber sharply, let them look...
...head of an institution which has always meant academic freedom, cannot let this misconception stand. He must make a statement, in Harvard's name as well as his own, contradicting the impression left by the press. We are fundamentally opposed to the President's position that Communists per se are unfit as teachers, but we are confident that his ideals are completely incompatible with those of the "Little Dies" committees. We are confident he would oppose any action resembling a "witch-hunt...
First. "A Touch of the Times" was financed on less that $2000, with a final cost per foot so low that Hollywood could well stand to take a lesson. And secondly, as an undergraduate organization, Ivy is doing much to increase respect nationally for student ability and professionalism. So far, Ivy's company at Harvard has been probably the most successful of college movie clubs...
...Next day, he followed up his free advice with a dramatic and not entirely disinterested proposal. He offered to take over his competitors-National, Delta, Capital, Chicago & Southern, and Colonial Airlines -and handle all their domestic air mail at Eastern's "non-subsidy" rate of 60/ to 65^ per ton mile (v. the five lines' average which he figured at $4.45 last year). *The difference, said Rick, would save the taxpayers $10 million a year...