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...Intellect Gap. Graduate-school enrollment is expected to dip 25% to 50% or more, confronting some smaller schools with the very real threat of financial ruin. Most universities, depending heavily on graduate students to teach lower-level undergraduate courses, will have a hard time finding enough qualified people to stand behind their lecterns. More important, as many thousands of the nation's brightest young men enter the Army rather than graduate school, there will be a gap of at least two years in the development of much-needed skills and intellect. The new regulations, said Harvard President
...aftermath of World War II, the international casualty list read like a global roll call. Europe was an economic ruin; Russia was still reeling; Japan was shattered; China and Southeast Asia were torn by revolution. By comparison, the U.S. seemed a privileged party indeed. It boasted 40% of the world's income and a burgeoning economy. It was as rich as ever in natural resources, its population was growing, and it had an enormous output of food. It also had incredible military muscle; it possessed the world's only nuclear weapons...
...given him no reason for his failure to pass the physical. Shetterly said that after he refused to sign the oath U.S. Army Intelligence officials finger-printed him and questioned him for four hours. The officials threatened to investigate him, he said, and warned him that an investigation would ruin his career prospects in this country...
...Pass-fail has taken the curse off the requirement," Stein said last night. "Now no one will have to ruin his average with a bad grade in a language course." Both the German and Romance Language Departments voted in December to open all their elementary language courses to pass-fail students...
...Governor faces strong opposition. Last summer Dorchester residents were able to block the use of another site for the transit facilities near Codman St. in Dorchester. They feared that the yards would lower property values and ruin the neighborhood. Milton town officials contend that the yards would fill in valuable and scenic wildlife refuge and, worse, connect Milton by land with Dorchester. Milton residents, mainly of middle and upper incomes, fear being closely tied to poorer areas in Boston. These objections will make the fight over the marshland an emotional one. But the Governor himself has said that...