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Exclusion of other national charities in the specified list of fund recipients is a feature new to this year's drive. The Council decided on this course "not because it considered these causes unimportant, but because at the present time the plight of the student's of the world was deemed more immediate...
Three causes which will receive money from the campaign may be observed in action during the year. Two of the three aid Harvard students almost exclusively, while the third, Phillips Brooks House, acts in the interest of Boston's underprivileged as well as undergraduates...
William H. Hastie LL.B. '33, a 45 year old Law School graduate from Knoxville, Tennessee, was sworn in Thursday as the first Negro judge of a United States District Court of Appeals...
...about Tufts? All Shepard knows about the visitors from Medford is what Walt McCurdy has told him. McCurdy, a member of last year's team, played with a Business School outfit that lost to the Jumbos in an unofficial scrimmage. Coach Fred Ellis likes to play a wild and fast game. His team is about the same as Shepard's heightwise (the Smith-Rockwell-Prior front line averages 6 ft. 5 in.) and his best man is Perry, a dead set shot who is also very fast...
Another of Lilienthal's problems was deciding what portion of AEC's resources should go to non-military use. An original estimate of a six-to-eight year head start in atomic bomb production allowed the AEC to go ahead with power-plant and medical research projects; intelligence reports and scientific evidence filtering out of Russia last summer indicated that the estimate was wrong. President Truman's September announcement that Russia had produced an atomic explosion fathered continuing military demands that the AEC concentrate almost entirely on making bombs and improving them. Other questions which Lilienthal worked over while...