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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MARY ANN EDELEN Syracuse, N. Y...
Broad plans to check the aggression of the Japanese and the Rome-Berlin axis by cornering the world supply of certain strategic metals are being suggested to United States Senators and State Department officials by William Y. Elliott, professor of Government...
...fortunate and goes to college, even if she has to commute, Harvard and all its business sort of cools off. She realizes that half the students are in on scholarships, working on the N. Y. A., and a few here and there are the so-called blue-bloods whom she never gets to meet. (I mean the blue-bloods.) She also realizes that living in Cambridge is very convenient especially if there is a comfortable sofa in the living room, and the family is out for the evening when daughter is "having company." She learns "lines" quickly, and finds that...
Five years ago, and with fine New England hauteur, Harvard refused to accept proffered aid from President Roosevelt's N. Y. A. Presumably taking the attitude that the college can care for her own, an offer of $135 for each of approximately 300 students was refused. Now that new sources of money must be found for the floundering Temporary Student Employment Plan--floundering because dining hall profits no longer exist--this bit of misdirected individualism appears all the more unfortunate...
Thus there would appear to be little logical reason against reversing the previous unfortunate stand. Certainly, considering the need not only for maintaining T. S. E. but of expanding it, there is every reason in favor of doing so. Supplementing rather than replacing T. S. E., the N. Y. A. aid could be extended to commuters, and, perhaps, to graduate students. If it must, in order to preserve its peace of mind, an ever-wary Harvard can accept the aid on a year-to-year basis; but in order to rise above pride and petty individualism, the University must...