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...reserve enlistments indicates that a new, all-embracing plan is already brewing. But the colleges must be given a definite idea of what and how much will be expected of them so they can start to expand facilities, plan curricula, and assemble instructors. The greater the delay, the poorer these preparations will be. With competent civilians finally in charge of manpower, the plan to come will probably be far more effective than the previous attempts. The men in charge of the Commission and the authority granted them inspire the utmost confidence. But the problem of war time education is still...
...plight of the 450 Freshmen now living in the Yard is the crisis in the absorption of the Freshman Year by the House system. Instructors in the major survey courses report that the class is apparently doing poorer work than its predecessors; the Yardlings themselves admit that after two months of College they still feel like outsiders in the Houses with which they are affiliated. Part of their uneasiness is due to inevitable uncertainty about the future; for this, the University can offer only advice and an aspirin. But it is not too late to correct the College's failure...
...have just read your article on William Francis Gibbs in TIME, Sept. 28. . . . One little bracketed statement in the fourth paragraph is rather amusing and very false. You say, "By contrast, in World War I U.S. yards, building smaller, poorer ships delivered not a single cargo vessel of the wartime program until after the war was ended." That virtually means, as it stands, that the U.S. Shipping Board got no deliveries of cargo vessels...
...Liberty ship program got under way, 95 cargo ships, 1,088,497 deadweight tons; from January to April 1942, as much as during the whole of 1941; by the end of August, 367 ships, 4,882,415 deadweight tons. (By contrast, in World War I, U.S. yards, building smaller, poorer ships, delivered not a single cargo vessel of the wartime program until after the war was ended...
Year before last, 1,514 babies were born in Standard hospitals, mostly to Latin Americans. Mothers are given lectures and courses on prenatal and postnatal care-e.g., unless the poorer classes of Latin American women are told to stop nursing their children, they will suckle them for two or three years...