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...result of an almost impregnable separation of authority, the predicament of the Dance Committee in its search for additional space will remain insoluble without prompt aid from the House masters. The weekends of five hundred students stand in jeopardy unless the masters of Winthrop and Eliot Houses speedily set aside their fears and come to the rescue of a clamoring student body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terpsichorcan Treadmill | 11/20/1946 | See Source »

...point of explosion in Europe would be reached when Russian power came within proximate domination of the Continent. At that point the instincts of survival in the West would prompt decisive action and a joining of the issue. The way to avoid war is not to allow this expansion. This is why the American public should, and generally does, support Secretary Byrnes's increasing and why the whole of non-Communist Europe is heartened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Continent In Travail: EUROPE'S HOPE: (Dr. Niebuhr's Report) | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Although solutions to the problem exist, only a prompt investigation by the Student Council will succeed in galvanizing University officials into immediate action. There is no doubt that pedestrians and drivers alike stand to benefit from any effective device for luring automobiles from the streets of Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Park Your Car-cass | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Looking forward to a prompt meeting with the Council Committee, Considine voiced the hope that "we may reach mutual agreement upon the issues, which will guarantee that the Council will democratically represent the student body of Harvard College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Revision Committee Offers To Meet With Council Unit, Urges Constitution Reform | 9/25/1946 | See Source »

...Smoker there. The audit of the Student Council Treasurer, as provided by the Constitution, is entirely too perfunctory to afford such assurance. Certain choice details such as the $800 loan granted the Freshman Class in May of 1945 without even the formality of a Council vote, might prompt the undergraduate to look further. But other expenditures would only emphasize the complete divorce that he, and students like him, have accepted from the control of the money he pledges. The expenditure of $275 in five years for private Council dinners and Council pictures is not an expense that many students would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where the Elite Meet | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

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