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...directors were late, and their dispatch, once work was begun, in no sense atones for the years of slumber. Yet, of greater long-range importance, the Provost has kept Harvard's program clean. He has not perverted it, as even many Ivy League colleges have done, into a vacuum pump, sucking at every high-school football field, swimming pool, and baseball diamond, specking to relieve athletic deficits by cheapening education. Now and again, there may be violations of the scholarship first policy, but whatever pressure exists for recruiting an athletic elite, one may be sure, does not come from University...
...difficult to describe the vacuum which provost Buck's departure will leave. The job of Provost, combining charge of numerous organizations like the Harvard Yenching Institute with the task of running the Faculty, involves more detail and more broad scope, more fiscal genius and more grasp of principles, then we can describe in a few paragraphs. Mr. Buck not only filled the job but made it, and through it impressed his ideas firmly on Harvard much to everyone's benefit. Like all posts whose first occupants made them what they are, that of Provost and Dean will be very difficult...
Laborites with uneasiness, he dipped into the budget box for the details: ¶ Slashed: the onerous purchase tax. The levy on furs, jewelry, cosmetics and similar luxuries dropped from 100% to 75%; for automobiles, vacuum cleaners and the like, from 66.6% to 50%; for carpets, linoleum, domestic hardware, clocks, watches, toys, etc., from 33.3% to 25%. To halt the disappearance of the London taxicab (TIME, April 20), the heavy purchase tax for London cabs was abolished. ¶ Discontinued: entertainment taxes on amateur theatricals, amateur sporting events and professional cricket matches. "In this country, cricket occupies a special place among sports...
...spite of its Primer style, Professor Walsh's book is an ambitious and worthwhile effort. Like those who rail against "our godless campuses," Walsh recognizes a religious vacuum in most colleges. Putting the point differently, he declares that the campuses have in fact a plethora of gods, false gods with no effective challenge from the true, Christian Deity. With Christianity under the wing of a lame-duck Department of Religion, under no formal wing at all, or ludicrously capsuled in the binge of a "Religious Emphasis Week," the field is abandoned to haloed secular gods, like relativism, materialism, and "scientism...
...West lets itself be trapped by such Red beguilement, Germany will be a vacuum into which Red armies might some day rush, leaving the West to defend the Continent's edge against a Soviet power augmented by Germany's strength. As much as any European. Adenauer sees the danger. His Washington visit was a big step toward scotching...