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...traditional Harvard leadership. Perhaps the faculty has been enervated by the war. Whatever the reason, Harvard has lost pre-eminence in many of the departments of the Humanities. The very base of the individuality of the University, the tutorial system, is threatened; new concepts of the old truism, intellectual balance within the student body, spread doubt that a worthy theory will be applied. The faculty may already be committed to the General Education Plan, but the undergraduate body stands at the shore, doubtful that the ice is strong...
Over & over the committee stressed the truism that big business and labor are now extragovernmental powers in themselves. Said the committee: "It would be a very starry-eyed government, indeed, that refused to expand sufficiently to cope with the concentrations of social power embodied in giant corporations and giant labor organizations...
...Vines is still another chapter in what seems to be a cinematic back-to-the-grass-roots trend (The Southerner, State Fair). It adds weight to the truism that eloquence about the land and its stewards increases in direct proportion to its removal from studio sets. Yet there are many moving scenes and fine performances in this film...
...Combat reports have made Artilleryman Snyder's observation a truism...
Ever since the repeated lootings of Erie by Jim Fiske and Jay Gould in the 60's, it has been a Wall Street truism that "Erie will never pay a common dividend." But last week recently reorganized Erie declared a $5 dividend on its new preferred stock-the entire 1942 requirements. That opens the door to a payment on the common...