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John E. Moss (D-Cal.) wrote Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson last week, forwarding a University request to have material accumulated during the war declassified. Moss, chairman of a House sub-committee on Government Information, said the material occupied "badly needed library space equivalent to a room 100 by 70 feet, packed tightly from floor to ceiling." He said storage costs amounted to $1200 per year...
...Extracurricular activities have hindered academic interest due to the concept of the successful Yale man. This is a concept where the good student is sub-ordinated to a perverted notion of the 'well-rounded' person. If there is to be a revival of academic interest at Yale, then there will have to be a de-emphasis in the whole sphere of extracurricular activities. The recent creation of the Ivy League is a significant step in preventing undue emphasis on athletics...
...this unique microcosm, Cambridge, where every social and economic level in the country can be found, there also is a sub-culture; its idols aren't individuals, who can be pinned down and publicized, and it is not without a kind of cause, but it is a rebellion all the same...
...first half of the lecture developed more fully the idea of how right and left-handedness in sub-atomic physics may lead to a deeper understanding of the asymmetries of the universe as a whole. The possibility that we may live in a right-handed world is disturbing to physicists who are as yet "unwilling to admit the element of the purely arbitrary into the laws of physics." He also introduced the notion of the symmetry of past and future built into physical laws...
Adapted for the screen by Colette, Pit of Loneliness is a sad tale of frustrated affection and desire in a 19th century girls' boarding school. Inadequate sub-title translations of the French outline a depressing picture of adolescent girls and their teachers in fertile, maleless isolation...