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...this number, an estimated 800 requests came from members of the University. When finally installed these units, added to the estimated 100 now in the University, will give a total of 900 telephone units at Harvard, as opposed to the pre-war average of from...
...meeting will be held in the Freshman Union this evening of all Freshmen interested in a photographic club now taking form under the auspices of the Union Committee and the Student Council. Replacing the pre-war group pushed out of the Union by the Navy, the new club will be provided with a complete dark-room for the use of its members...
Allowing for a changed viewpoint since her pre-war days in Cambridge, Cynthia Brott observed that really, the Radcliffe girl hasn't changed very much. "Still the same interest in men--sparked considerably by the 'joint instruction' programme--the same indulgence in the social whirl, and the same maturing process as the old days." With Cambridge looking "worse than basic training with the millions of men," the Radcliffe interest in the opposite sex and consequent social whirl is understandable. The "maturing process," however, is a singular something Miss Brott, a biochemistry major, didn't work up in the laboratory...
...militant variety, has taken to the field again under the picturesque cloak of "American Action Incorporated." Born eighteen months ago in Chicago, this organization has enhanced its influence by inserting paid advertisements in newspapers throughout the country. As the legitimate offspring of the "America First Committee" of pre-war isolationist renown, it has sought in the November elections to keep out of office "Quislings" who "pretend to be friends to all, particularly the working man, but actually take orders from, or collaborate with those enemies of our government." This offhand indictment of all who look red or alien foreshadows...
...consistent opposition to aggression and oppression, in internal and international affairs alike, and clear, frank, and consistent loyalty to the principles of individual freedom and political liberty," Dallying said. He maintained that "two paramount facts" stand out in the Soviet post-war policy: (1) the reversal to its traditional, pre-war trends, which he termed anti-British; and (2) the unexpected difficulties in shifting Russian public opinion back to the old "schemes and concepts," after the policy of friendliness to the allied powers displayed during the war...