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...young, obscure Jules Romains set out to save peace by two methods. First, he would become a Big Writer, one who could influence public opinion. But he realized that "to affect events in any way, if you are not in a position of authority, it is not enough to have access to public opinion; you must also have access to those with power and authority and be ready at a decisive moment personally to influence their decisions. I called that: 'Action on vital points...
...Sweden's Lutherans suffer the fate of their fellow Scandinavians. Episcopalians are after a preliminary $117,000. Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists and many a smaller denomination are this month launching world relief appeals, part of which is for orphaned missions. None of this is to affect ordinary U. S. mission budgets...
...Industrial Cambridge atmosphere with its coal dust and high sulphur and chlorine content must inevitably affect the paper and bindings of many of our greatest treasures," Jackson observed. The new library will be equipped with the most modern air-conditioning in order that this disintegration can be prevented. We will be able to take care of our materiel in a manner never before possible...
Before answering the second question, it is well to recall that almost a year ago, at the peak of the tenure controversy, Dean Ferguson stated that the loss of a large number of assistant professors would not seriously affect undergraduate instruction. This was figuring pretty close in Slavic, but at that time it did seem just possible to fill the gap created by Simmons' departure. Over the summer, however, two new developments put the Slavic department out on a limb: a Teaching Fellow who had been counted on to share part of the load left for a job in Washington...
Then there is the question--and a weighty one--of how such a system would affect the social life of a House. One of President Lowell's principal reasons for inaugurating the House system was that it would provide opportunity for all students--no matter what their school or family "background" or what their wealth--to dine with each other in a congenial atmosphere. To set some students apart as waiters undoubtedly would compromise the "dinner table education," for which President Conant too is enthusiastic. Perhaps, also, it would cause a social distinction between the waiters and the non-waiters...