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...Married servicewomen, said the court, are entitled to get the same dependency benefits that men get-which will mean $45 to $58 more per month. There are almost 9,000 married women in the services (out of a total of 48,707), but it is not yet clear how many will be affected by the ruling. The Pentagon declares, however, that it welcomes the advent of Army husbands...
...recruit now spends a third of his time in a classroom; the general gets the equivalent of two or three years of graduate study. To keep everyone learning off-duty as well, 33 correspondence schools provide 2,500 mail-order courses to 1,000,000 servicemen and servicewomen around the globe...
...haired Crimson editor, a rumple-faced Crimson photographer, and continued. "Why, even as I walk around the campus--oops, Yard--I think I might be looking at our nation's next president." These, difficult to believe, were words uttered by a Radcliffe girl--one of the twenty-four ex-servicewomen now collecting their $65 a month, filling out book authorizations, and discussing "the veteran's problem" with more grace and less publicity than their Harvard counterparts...
...Wellesley, on the other hand, the ex-servicewomen are returning to the halls of academe with a working knowledge of junior proms, field hockey, and the midnight oil. Agnes Jones, who was a Link Trainer instructor with the Waves, had been a student at the University of New Hampshire before rallying to the colors. Majoring in English, she found the transition back to college life easy. Although she lives at home, her social life around the undergraduate circle hasn't been impaired--indeed, perhaps strengthened--by her experience in uniform...
Like the Harvard veterans who prostrate themselves before the Reserve Desk at Widener, Radcliffe's ex-servicewomen are doing their work seriously and often. They agree that English A is, while slightly tiring at times, well worth the trouble. Mrs. Eunice Storey Deerhake, '50, who was at Cornell before getting mixed up with the Army Air Forces, liked the emphasis here on liberal arts. Majoring in physics, she is trying to carry five courses including philosophy and government. "The general education plan," she said, "seems like the best way to get your distribution credit. Here I am concentrating in Physics...