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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Party polemicists pounced on Varga and skinned him alive in various high-toned journals. He was given a chance to recant, but refused. Thereupon he was dismissed from his post as head of the Academy of Science's Institute of World Economics and World Politics. The institute was abolished. Twenty other top Soviet economists were in disgrace along with Varga; their mistake was that they did not listen to a proverb common among embattled Soviet economists: "It is better to defend the government's figures than to go to jail for your...
Originally, the paper was written in the rooms of the various editors, the first office being the room of Mr. Henry Alden Clark '74 in Stoughton Hall. It was at first printed in Cambridgeport, but in 1901 rooms were engaged in the Union, and it was there edited and printed until 1915. In the summer of that year, the present building at 14 Plympton street was constructed, and was first occupied in the following autumn...
Among the editors who have later become prominent in various fields of activity are Messrs. Curtis Guild '81, Thomas William Lament '92, Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04, William Roscoe Thayer '81, the late Barrett Wendell '77, and Owen Wister...
...diamond anniversary. During these seventy-five years the paper has grown to occupy an important and unique position in the life of the University. It has watched many changes in this institution of learning including the impact of three wars. Through all that time, it has represented freely the various shifts of opinion among the young men of each successive college generation...
...reply to the gentleman who wanted to know what was wrong with attending Mr. Cramer's tutoring school, and whether, in fact, Mr. Cramer should not be encouraged, in view of his ultra-rapid success in teaching University courses, and whether the various professors should not make exams such as to prevent this sort of study, I would like to put in a few words in condemnation of Mr. Cramer...