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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow is not clear, it is obvious that their form of communism is radically different from the Russian variety. The Chinese brand is based not on an urban but on an agrarian economy. Industrial backwardness prevents the quick establishment of a police state. Moreover, since the Communists must use the same bureaucracy to carry out its administration, they must modify their demands to make them acceptable to this group...
Still another proposal was to use an intra-mural program as the basis of college athletics, choosing an all-star team from the House teams to be the Varsity and play against Yale...
...monster suspended in the neo-gothic tower of Memorial Hall counts off the hours all day long. Like the bells of St. Paul's, it is operated by heavy weights which slide down the inside of the tower and turn the clock. The most venerable college bell now in use, it was presented by the alumni shortly before the turn of the century...
...might be both more instructive and inspiring to use this money to help rebuild some university in the war area, or to aid its students. There is no need to state a more specific purpose than that; if the main principle is accepted, it will be easy to find cases where it may be applied. Surely such an action would memorialize these men with far greater relevance to their ideals and the present crisis than would an activities center. A small plaque could be set up in Memorial Church to tell what the money accomplished, and surely this would...
There is little question that the money could be better spent in a program of federal aid to education, increased pay to teachers, raiding the educational standards of the South, a system of government scholarships to non-veterans and veterans, research in the non-military use of atomic energy and in a dozen other ways that would improve our living standards...