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Thus small, unpredictable surpluses and sick department deficits render the overall Harvard position an unsure one, despite the $497,753 "profit...
...Times concluded the girls at Smith are going to college ". . . not to render their sex less feminine but to develop as fully as may be the powers of womanhood and furnish women with means of usefulness, happiness and honor...
Last week the State Department made an abject apology: "Miss Comfort was detained as the result of a most regrettable and unfortunate mistake. There is no information in the files of the immigration service which would render her inadmissible should she apply for entry into the United States in the future...
Things That Are Caesar's. In Philadelphia, the tax receiver's office mailed 10,000 receipts to citizens who paid up, got back 28 receipts with checks to cover the same amounts. In Dallas, Internal Revenue officials received an unsigned letter enclosing $105 and a Bible reference: "Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due . . ." (Romans 13:7) In Bari, Italy, Widow Teresa Porcaro looked at her tax bill, forthwith died of a heart attack...
...Round Men. "Such a course . . . would give the power of concentrated thought. This has a special relevance at the present time, when an increasing number . . . are subjected to conditions which render the practice of concentrated thought impossible . . . Secondly, it would have the effect, historically claimed for it, of turning out 'round men' ... It would so polish and refine their minds that they could 'get up' any subject of which they might subsequently stand in need, while the possession of a perspective and a sense of relative values would fit them for high administrative posts...