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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short, Banker Istel found it perfectly logical that U.S. investors should buy bargains at home before looking across the seas. Not until the market rose to levels reflecting a truer value for stocks, and the chances for profits were thus lessened, could Americans be expected to start looking for more profitable enterprises abroad. In addition, said Istel, foreign investors face currency difficulties, "run the risk of not being able to repatriate [their] capital," for the chance of profits which are smaller than in the U.S. It was "not surprising" that since the end of the war, private international finance...
Thereafter, as Margaret and Dean get sweeter, the hokum gets thicker and the film duller. Together with a little Yorkshire lad (Brian Roper), they discover a mysterious walled-up garden and start remaking it into a brilliantly Technicolored bower. They also succeed in reclaiming crusty old Herbert Marshall for a sunny, tear-washed finale...
Steam shovels moved into Jarvis Field this summer to start excavations for the University's new $3,000,000 Graduate Center. Wrecking crows are already well along with the job of tearing down the Portland huts, temporary units which housed six veterans and their families...
Back this fall with new makeup and a crop of good stories and poems, the Harvard Advocate has got off to a running start for what promises to be and interesting year. Last winter the Advocate arose reincarnated and proclaimed an end to its previous reputation of academic dehydration. The magazine began to publish interesting discussions of controversial topics; its fiction content showed improvement. And judging by the first issue of Volume 133, this new policy will be continued...
...From its start the Seminar has been sponsored by the Harvard Student Council and supported entirely by private donations. The absence of any official connection with the government is becoming even more important for the Seminar's success. Facts about American society are becoming increasingly available in Europe through such channels as the Army Information Centers in occupied countries. What distinguishes the Seminar is the presence here of American student administrators and outstanding teachers from all over the United States--non Army and non-tourist individuals who have created in this eighteenth century castle the free and democratic atmosphere...