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...factor, however, that the Administration seems not to have considered is this: not all of the graduating Seniors will be leaving from so-called "over-crowded" rooms; rather, quite a few departures can be expected to cause genuine prewar vacancies in rooms that were not unwillingly expanded by an extra man last September. And the possibilities seem quite slim that men in the recently crowded suites will quickly pull up stakes and shuffle themselves around so that the nice, round sum of 40 empty spaces is created...
...College has not, however, raised its tuition in order to balance the budget, as have several other departments of the University, such as the Business School. Before the war, the College was attempting to lower the cost of living at Harvard. By maintaining tuition and room charges at their prewar levels, and by holding board rises to a fraction of the nationwide jump in food prices, the College has in effect achieved its goal. It costs less to live at Harvard now, in preparation to living costs throughout the country, than it did before the war. It also costs less...
...cuts uneasily because they would impair the quality of education at Harvard. Nor would they stand up logically in the face of the fact that the return to normal enrollment will be an advantage only insofar as it can unburden the physical plant and return educational standards to the prewar level...
...prewar days, Quebec's Fascist National Unity Party claimed 80,000 members and openly talked about a march on Ottawa to seize the government. N.U.P. folded when its leader, Adrien Arcand, was interned during the war. But N.U.P. is not dead; recently some 850 members held a rally in Montreal. Time Correspondent Stuart Keate visited Leader Arcand in his home at Lanoraie, near Montreal, last week wired this report...
...President Roosevelt's wartime manpower investigator, he was "shocked to learn that at least 4,000,000 men had been rejected as 4Fs." He was also shocked by a prewar American Medical Association finding that two-thirds of U.S. families could not afford the cost of serious illness. Said Baruch...