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With a definite Harvard tinge to its editorial staff and to its first issue, a new intercollegiate magazine entitled "Threshold" has just made its appearance...
Containing articles by Mrs. Roosevelt and Max Lerner, "Threshold" is intended as a publication devoted to the work of well-known adults as well as of students and recent college graduates. Irwin Ross '40, editor of the periodical, explains its purposes in an editorial...
...grey-clad figure who faced him over the threshold didn't look like a solicitor, though. In fact, Vag decided that his closest counterpart was the bronze gentleman who sat on a marble pedestal in front of University Hall. His prepared speech beginning "I always send my laundry home . . ." died on his lips, and when the gentlemen turned towards the corridor and beckoned him to follow, he hurriedly reached for his coat. There was a curious whistling sensation in his ears, and suddenly he found that he was again facing John Harvard, for there was no doubt about...
...moment the words were uttered, the enemy's hobnailed foot was on the city's threshold. The Germans had passed Kingissep, only 70 miles to the southwest, and Novgorod, no miles southeast. The city's railroad lines to Moscow were threatened. From the north Finns and Germans pressed down the Karelian Isthmus to within 50 miles of the city...
Farther south the Germans, who were on the threshold of Kiev as the week began and had not gone in as it ended, complained of bad weather, of fortifications "as strong as the Maginot Line," of forts three stories deep. But as British Military Expert Strategicus wrote last week: "It is not positions which defend the troops but the troops who defend the positions." On the Ukraine front the Germans finally forced their way across the Dniester River, the boundary line until the Russians took Bessarabia in June...