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...Masters' recent request that graduate students be allowed to move into rooms made vacant by the construction of Leverett towers is the logical solution to a somewhat unexpected problem. If contributors to the Program had realized that by the spring of 1959 the College would be wondering what to do with its newly acquired rooming space, they might have been slightly amused at the pleas for more rooms. But what the Masters have actually proposed is a solution to a temporary problem, and it should be considered as such...
onsense. In West Lebanon, Ind., the editors of the Gazette tried to explain a number of recent typographical errors in its pages, said they had been caused by "remlins...
...himself about unemployment problems (TIME, March 2), Mitchell was basing his rosy-pink prediction on a recent Labor Department finding on the current high unemployment rate.* The finding: as business picks up, many industrial employers are paying for overtime instead of hiring or rehiring additional workers. Reason: liberal labor contracts have added so many fringe-benefit costs to each employee that it is cheaper-up to a point-to work fewer employees overtime than to add others. For evidence, the Labor Department points out that from January 1958 to January 1959, the number of production workers employed in U.S. industry...
Voluntary withdrawals from the Freshman Class at the end of the Fall Term were the lowest in recent years, information released recently by the Freshman Dean's office indicates. Only 12 members of the Class of '62--one percent of those registered--had resigned by the end of the Fall term...
Contrasting the consistent decline of Freshman withdrawals in recent years is the marked increase in total resignations from the college. According to former Dean Leighton, the number of drop-outs from all four classes has risen from 2.7 percent to 4.5 percent since...