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Whether is not this condition is temporary depends on many factors. Next year, enrollment will commence the long shrink back to normal and the full-scale summer term will be discontinued. A great drop in student income will result, both in tuition and in room and board. If this decrease should be accompanied by a continued rise in prices, the College will have to move swiftly to meet expenses...
...such easy postwar credit as G.I. loans for houses at inflated prices). Between 1940 and 1946, the hard cash in the nation's pocket had increased from $40 to $106 billion. In the same period, production had leveled off at only 186% of the 1935-39 average. The result, when controls came off, was a tremendous new demand which sent prices soaring...
...sabotage was especially bad on the railroads. Track was torn up, signals were wrecked, engineers were hauled bodily out of their cabs. High tension and telegraph wires were cut. As a result of these activities twelve people were killed...
Harvard's new Russian Research Center will operate almost without competition in a field of unquestionable and immediate importance. Postwar Soviet Russia has already been analyzed economically, politically, and militarily by newspapermen, professors, senators, trained observers, and other species of export. The result, as far as the non-expert observer is concerned, has been a collection of conclusive facts diametrically opposed by a collection of equally conclusive facts. Except for the Hoover Library at Stanford, the Research Center will be the only major organization devoted to a discovery, on a coldly academic basis, of the actual nature of modern Russian...
Everybody that plays in the Harvard Band, from the 11-year-old mascot to the last old grad, has a good time. They also all play well. When they play such excellent arrangements as they did last night, the result cannot help but be a success. Various medleys by Leroy Anderson furnished most of the program, as Director Malcolm Holmes resurrected his early "Tercentenaria," added the necessary amount of Ivy League standbys, and finished with a sparkling new medley of Radcliffe numbers...