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...State: A Christian "should help to restore the State and its power to the service of human society, to the full recognition of the respect due to the human person and his efforts to attain his eternal destiny...
...second half of the program was the long and complex Beethoven Septet, consisting of a string quartet with three wind instruments added, which was performed with a perfect balance and dynamics hard to attain in so large a group without a director. I venture to predict that so perfect a program will not be heard in Sanders Theatre until the last of the series on August 29, when Richard Burgin will conduct another small string ensemble...
...Churchill announced that in May the Allies, for the first time, destroyed more submarines than the Ger mans build in a month. Exactly this had long been the goal of the anti-submarine campaign, but early this year the men in charge of the campaign did not expect to attain such a rate of destruction before 1944. If, as is generally supposed, the Germans have been building around 25 U-boats a month, the Allied bag may well have averaged one U-boat a day. Unofficial reports that the Germans lost 30 submarines were probably close to the mark...
...individual; no standardized reading list can do the job. It must be personal and spontaneous; course credit and exams are not the answer. Having proven itself invaluable, the tutorial system has been remodeled for the duration. In peace, strengthened and cleansed by the catharsis of war experience, it can attain, along with Harvard education as a whole, new levels of academic usefulness for a new society...
...Students in the service," the statement read, "who wish to attain academic credit for work of an educational nature done in the Army, Navy, and Coast Guard are advised to communicate with the Armed Force Institute at Madison, Wisconsin for which they may obtain a copy of the Armed Force Institute Catalogue...