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Three means of help can be offered--loans, work, and scholarships. The traditional University policy has been to keep loans to the absolute minimum because of the feeling that an obligation beyond what a man can reasonably be expected to repay in the years immediately following graduation, results in moral depression and defeatism, culminating in a "What the hell, why bother about anything" attitude. This policy is not unreasonable, but it should be re-examined in the light of the present situation. The veteran who needs help does not require a large sum. He comes to college with what amounts...
...data would be studied with bated breath, would yield new understanding of the birth of mesons. Eventually, perhaps, the grateful physicists might repay the Army with a cataclysmic meson-bomb...
...editors, unquestionably under orders from on high, still found food, for fun. They reported the case of a 25-year-old food shop directress who had embezzled 333,000 rubles ($63,270). The sale of all her personal property realized only 5,000 rubles. She was ordered to repay the remaining 328,000 at the rate of 25% of her monthly salary of 225 rubles. Laughed Crocodile: "There. You have your orders. You are directed to live to the age of 511 years...
...tainted with boondoggling. One such scheme clicked smartly last week: the Peruvian Government was so pleased with the Inter-American Development Commission's job in creating a local crafts industry that it took over the project, lock, stock & barrel. What's more, it would undertake to repay development costs...
...British zones had enough of their own food to maintain a 1,200-calorie ration level, but the Russians and French would be hard hit. To help UNRRA out, the U.S. and Britain contributed 100,000 tons of food to carry the other zones. Unless UNRRA manages to repay this "loan," the U.S.-British zones face starvation by next month...