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...Yale project is the third step in an attempt to restore pre-war standards in college rooms. The first move, made in 1953, was to decrease the size of the freshman class from 1150 to 1000. This means that by 1957-58 the size of the student body will have dropped...
Yale hopes to expand these facilities to house about 3500 with its new college, which will leave 3700 people living in rooms for 3500. Officials explained that pre-war standards were more luxurious than those now considered desirable...
...last decade has been conspicuously aimed at the immediate situation, not the long-range contingency. Nothing shows this short-range concern better than the fact that Marshall-plan economic aid was converted into purely military aid at just the moment when the plan was finally beginning to restore pre-war levels of prosperity. So long as Russian policy was also disjointed, the United States could find considerable success in meeting each new threat as it developed. But the recent signs that the Kremlin is preparing a comprehensive long-range policy calls for an equally extensive reorientation in Washington...
...were by far the most impressive Yardlings ever turned out, at least in the respect of appearance and writing clarity. They were printed issues and showed signs of ample early-morning work. The gulf between them and postwar Yardlings inadvertently appears in the volume number of current editions. The pre-war year is forgotten; the dateline slugs Volume 5, not Volume...
...only work of fiction in i.e. is an except entitled The Baumans from Hona Karmel's forthcoming novel. Miss Karmel's story deals with the survivors of the Nazi ghettos in post-war Poland; it evokes as well the experience of the ghetto itself, and of the pre-war life of a Jewish family. Specifically, we are confronted with the characterization of two individuals a mother and a daughter. Is it enough that Miss Karmel has attained a "skillful" delineation of these figures, a "striking" presentation of their personal dilema? Has she a right to utilize a human drama charged...