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...mark in this year's drive to match John D. Rockefeller's conditional gift of that amount. President Conant announced yesterday the success of the most intensive fund-raising effort in recent Harvard history. Conant added that the Business School has now passed the halfway point in its post-war campaign...
...Lyon Phelps' poem "Deutschland, Deutschland," which won honorable mention in the Garrison contest, strongly echoes Eliot in rhythm, symbols, and the use of the device of repeating fragments of a broken phrase. Phelps succeeds in effectively communicating to the reader the mood of fallen Germany in this post-war period...
...Council has been very far from giving up its service functions, however; during the last few years it has tended to become more and more a service group. This was partly due to the post-war switch to an elective council, with members worried about re-election; partly to recent Councils' preoccupation with "public relations." The present petitions may be frivilous or they may be quite sincere; their wording is loose enough so that signers' opinions about the Council may run from intense antipathy to apathy. But the thousand-odd signatures on the petitions, whatever their motivation, ought to persuade...
Although job opportunities for college women are not so numerous as they were during the war and post-war boom years, 78 of the 238 graduates in the Class of 1949 are employed in government, industry, and teaching. Most of the married girls were not planning to work outside the home except for a year or two, and had no desire for business or professional careers...
Four athletes received their fourth award in the same sport, permitted under special post-war regulations. Those receiving the honor for the fourth time were John Gay '50, facing; Henry Watkins '50, swimming; Harvey Thayer '50, track; and Robert Claflin '50, wrestling...