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Although most of these facts concerning the students are revealed in the complicated information blanks, additional information is secured in the interviews with the House tutors. These interviews are very important, and all men are urged to make appointments as soon as possible to avoid the last minute rush. As an interview is not at all binding, you can see tutors from more than two Houses if you wish...
...plan for relief, however ingenious, could avoid helping the Germans indirectly if not directly. Germans would continue to remove surpluses from conquered countries, particularly where aid was given. A blockade was not a blockade unless it blockaded...
...subway windows and pillars stickers with slogans such as Defend the Soviet Union and All Out May Day. Comrades had to get permission to travel, do scholarly research, study for higher degrees. The comrades mortally feared detection; one even wore gloves when he edited a campus Communist sheet, to avoid leaving fingerprints...
Second was scrap, for which OPM set a price ceiling at $20 a ton. Third was lumber, which Price Commissioner Leon Henderson had already forced down below $25 a thousand board foot (TIME, Feb. 3). Last week, to avoid future dislocation, the Government talked of acquiring its own stock pile...
...rush, as there was in the 'twenties and 'thirties, into the notorious snaps in any of the given areas. Passing one of these unscientific sciences or "cultural" language courses will not contribute an iota toward the liberal education that is the ultimate aim of distribution. The only way to avoid these difficulties is to provide the broad area surveys which the Faculty has approved in theory but shelved indefinitely. No difficulties, either the piddling ones of content or the more potent one of finances, should be allowed to defer the setting up of the area courses at the soonest opportunity...