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...setting the General Examination schedule has been the necessity for getting grades worked out in time for the mid-January meetings of the Faculty, Board of Overseers, and the Corporation, which note degrees and honors to the graduating students. These meetings were orginally slated for around January 15, which some-what cramped the time allotted for correcting the Generals; History, Government, and Economics were undoubtedly justified in picking an early date under these conditions. But now the three all-important meetings have been pushed up towards the end of the month...
Vanzetti's wish that their deaths might serve as a lesson so they would not have died in vain now echoes hollowly off the walls of the star-chamber, and the injustice of their execution draws a some-what less harsh parallel in other present denials of civil rights. The Bill of Rights may be aged but its vigor is occasionally renewed as when the Supreme Court stated in 1943 that, "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion...
...this classification, veterans did some-what better than non-veterans, since 30 percent of the former, as opposed to 28.5 percent of the latter, achieved a Dean's list average...
...plans now on the drawing board are good, but being premised on the presence of top-notch teaching talent, they should be scaled down some-what to include men of admittedly stop-gap timber. At all events, the Russian area program should get under way even while the University searches for the scarce teachers. Otherwise, for lack of material in Cambridge, the Harvard graduate must continue to turn to other institutions...
...partial set-off against expenses for veterans aid running at the rate of $200,000 a year, rents amounting to some $70,000 annually will be collected from the Jarvis Courts and Soldiers Field apartments while rents at Devens, not yet finally determined, will run at a some-what lower rate, Reynolds believes...