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...Damping wide-spread rumors that a steep rent increase was on the way, Edward L. Francis '28, yesterday assured tenants of the Harvard Housing Trust--including Holden Green, Shaylor Lane, and Gibson Terrace--that no general raise was presently under consideration...
...suggesting wide-spread tuition and interest rate rises to help American universities and colleges provide more reasonable professorial salaries, Professor Sumner Slichter is using pressure group tactics to solve a problem whose implications are nationwide. His remedies might well precipitate more difficulties than they would solve. While the immediate hardships of fixed pre-war faculty salaries in a period of swollen living costs merit alleviation, no solution should ignore the more permanent problem of seeking the best over-all means for financing all phases of education...
...inevitable results follow from the peculiarities of Bay State vote-getting. With such wide-spread hardening of the political arteries, the parties have been forced to find a modus vivendi. The patronage gets divvied up on a "love thy neighbor" basis, and campaign oratory frequently resembles nothing so much as Tweedledum denouncing Tweedledee...
Moreover, instructors have complained more about poor attendance this year than ever before and midyear grades show that cutting has been a far too wide-spread vice. Not only have most of the previous reasons for leniency disappeared, but there is the added obligation of a student of military age who should use his deferment or his reserve corps status to his fullest capacity while in the University. So far the war has had little effect on college life. This new regulation will hit the undergraduate in a very sore point and it will certainly force a more rigorous academic...
...well-known opponent of Fascist groups in this country, Miss Sweeney especially denounced the wide-spread practice of the Boston newspapers, who hush up the activities of the groups...