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...seventeen years of existence, the reading period has grown greatly. Beginning in the Department of History, Government, and Economics, it was rapidly expanded to become part of all save laboratory courses. At first, the only objection raised by Harvard undergraduates to the system was that some professors, thoroughly enthused with their subject, assigned as much as 1500 or 1600 pages of reading for their courses alone; but such difficulties were soon eliminated, and the innovation became an established part of the Harvard educational system...
...President of the University I congratulate the Harvard Crimson on the Completion of 70 years of its history. As President Lowell once remarked, four years constitute the college generation. By that reckoning the Crimson, which has seen more than seventeen generations, is a venerable institution. It has watched many changes in the University, including the impact of three wars. Through all that time, it has represented freely the various shifts of opinion among the young men of each successive generation, and in so doing it has served well both its contemporaries and the University...
...Detroit, canned fish, spaghetti, beans and soups were hard to get. The city faced an almost meatless Christmas, because quotas had been set on the basis of 1941 population, took no account of the new 336,000 population increase (TIME, Dec. 14). Butter dealers got 20% of their orders. Seventeen of Detroit's 18 packing houses closed for lack of meat...
Another situation that has not yet been fully recognized is the Navy's V-1 program which is still open because it recruits seventeen year olds. At present the Manpower Commission has not authority to deal with students of this age and unless this is soon remedied the Navy might unintentionally destroy the balance of manpower the newly appointed commission is striving to create...
...Seventeen months after the armistice of Compiegne, the leaders of the Third Republic stood in the dock at Riom to answer war-guilt charges dreamed up by Adolf Hitler. Instead they attacked the Vichy regime, praised General Charles de Gaulle. Delicate, scholarly, 70-year-old onetime Premier Léon Blum raised his grey head proudly and accused his accusers of rank mockery. Cried onetime Premier Edouard Daladier: "We shall make it clear where treason lurked and by whom France was betrayed...