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...architect's concept," Weld declared, "is unfortunately completely out of proportion to any suggestions the Council ever made and to any actual need. It is too bad that the Council members responsible for the report on which the architects based their plans and their subsequent estimates were never con-consulted...
Spanish Heritage. The concept of a wife sharing equally in her husband's earnings is a legal heritage from the Spanish and French settlers of the Southwest. The rest of the country followed the English common law, which holds that the husband is the lord and master, and as such owns all family property. But in recent years, common-law states have seen many of their prosperous citizens move to community-property states. In the last year, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nebraska and Oregon have switched in self-defense to the community-property concept...
...ideal set up by the General Education courses, but space limitations bar universal application of such liberal accounts. Nevertheless, the few lines it devotes to each of its offerings, at a time when the advisory system frequently consists of a semi-annual signature, provide non-concentrators with some concept of what the course is about. This leads to wiser planning of programs, which in turn should cut down petitions for course changes and many other early-term confusions...
...William H. Claflin, Jr. '15, Treasurer, the University's money is controlled. Today this fortune adds up to almost two hundred million dollars in market value, a figure that does not include a penny's worth of the physical plant. It is the source, not only of that vague concept known as Harvard's greatness, but also of many more specific questions, such as the various rates of tuition throughout the University. Yet the nature of Harvard's money, both in terms of its powers and its limitations, probably is more of a mystery in the minds of most students...
...document also endorses "the Rooseveltian concept of big three unity through the mechanism of the United Nations" as well as "rolling back prices for permanent full employment and an equitable system of production, distribution, and taxation...