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...clear and forceful discussion of "The Proposed Ten Percent Budget Cut," the latest Bulletin of the Harvard Teachers' Union raises various objections to the University's emergency financial policy. Some of the objections seem valid on their face; all are worthy of consideration. But the one really vital point made in the Union's leaflet is that the problem of reduced University income is one which will in the future concern every member of the Faculty as well as of the student body, and so should "be discussed freely and openly, in a spirit of democratic cooperation befitting...
...almost any hands, such material would yield a rank fruitcake of mere arty melodrama. But Carson McCullers tells her tale with simplicity, insight, and a rare gift of phrase. She makes its tortures seem at least as valid as the dull suburban tragedies from Farrell's or Dreiser's Midwest, commonly called lifelike. Reflections in a Golden Eye is the Southern school at its most Gothic, but also at its best. It is as though William Faulkner saw to the bottom of matters which merely excite him, shed his stylistic faults, and wrote it all out with Tolstoyan...
...Still another objection is that the College officials would have to perjure themselves by swearing that without N.Y.A.aid the students would be forced to leave college. That objection is no longer valid. N.Y.A. Form 304 (Application blank) merely requires that the University, the parent, and the applicant certify that "the work provided through the n.Y.A. is essential to enable the applicant to continue properly his education," And this is certainly a flexible and pleasantly vague statement...
Died. Dr. Franz Gürtner, 59, German Minister of Justice since 1932; in Berlin. He helped to formulate the 1938 decrees which destroyed the economic position of the Reich's remaining half-million Jews, described mass murders of Jews as "valid not only as law but as deeds of statesmanlike beauty...
...Reynolds should be permitted to pull in the welcome must of Ellis Island. Not even the selfish arguments for walking out Europe's outcasts bold good. In a world of destruction and despair the United States since its founding has been humanity's Shangri-la. There is still no valid cause for bolting shut its golden gate...