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...suffered no serious drop in its total return on investment last year, but there remains the danger that the recession may suddenly worsen and thus take a bigger chunk out of investment income. However, the University takes comfort in its continued conservative investment policy. Harvard's capital is much safer than that of schools whose need for higher returns has made them switch to more risky investments...
...than solving the entire constipated traffic mixup. Though the first two days of the experiment was a fiasco, the City Engineer's Office last week, in conjunction with the State Engineering Office, installed a substantial number of stoplights, cross-walks and other innovations. The end result has been a safer but more complicated Harvard Square...
Most schools opened on schedule, and health authorities argued that children were safer in school than out because carefully regulated schedules would protect them from overexertion. Besides, it is easier to get them to bed earlier with the warning of "school tomorrow." But in the lower grades there were many empty seats. Said a Brooklyn principal: "Parents are dreadfully scared...
...Percy) Wyndham Lewis* passionate hymn of praise to the face of their country. For Lewis, who once edited a ferocious avant-garde magazine entitled Blast, is Britain's quirkiest, most anarchical man of letters, and his point of view is always so unconventional that most people would feel safer at being in his bad books than in his good ones. In The Apes of God (1932), Lewis flailed phony British "culture" with rip-roaring violence; in Time and Western Man (1928) he sought to "heal and reinvigorate" the ailing body of Western civilization with bursts of high-voltage shock...
...England, a through highway means a bigger and more satisfied tourist trade. For the average Boston-New York commuter, the college student and the business man, the link means a quicker, safer trip. The State of Massachusetts has an excellent opportunity to make a painless contribution to its own and to its visitors' welfare...