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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indeed uphill. The hardest fact of the island's life is that it has too many people and too little land. Of its 1,000,000 arable acres, 300,000 are in sugar cane, the cash crop. That leaves less than half an acre of land per person for other crops and food production, and much of this land is eroded and exhausted. Unless Puerto Rico can perform a near-miracle of lifting itself by its own economic bootstraps, the problem of feeding the island will surely grow worse. With one of the world's highest birth rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the People | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...unconstitutional, it wouldn't work, and it would refute the ideals which we claim to stand for," they said. "Our courts have a policy that a person is innocent until proven guilty. Why should we mock this policy by condemning a party because of its ideals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orators Win One; Lose One in Ivy League Debates | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

Students interested in serious study of the Far East are not advised to concentrate in Far Eastern Languages by that Department. The Department believes that a general knowledge in a person's own civilization is a prerequisite for study of another civilization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Far Eastern Languages . . . | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

Only there is no such person as Dick Rosen. The examination was taken by Edward Messner '49, a concentrator in Mathematics, who is not enrolled in Social Relations 114 and who had been to none of the lectures and done none of the reading for the course...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Undergraduate Passes Examination | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

...partly a study of the author as a person, too. What he wrote and how he wrote it are both of significance. This picture of modern America is seen through the ideas of a modern man. We can see both the pictures and their interactions. We are that much richer...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Undergraduate Passes Examination | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

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