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...well known, Harvard's social facilities, especially for entertaining women guests, are inadequate. That does not mean we should accept solutions which other colleges have found suitable. Many depend on a fraternity system, which is foreign to Harvard. Yale emphasizes a kind of paternalism, working through the close relationship of the Master to the students in his college. Princeton has its eating clubs; Dartmouth has a plan for organized earnality on several weekends during the year...
...unavoidable and awesome fact confronting the world today is that before the decade or even the year is out, the U.S. and Russia may be at war. On the U.S. estimate of Russian power depends-or should depend-the extent to which the U.S. will build up its own strength...
Militarily, the satellites might be of more use to Russia; they can provide about 100 divisions, whose worth would depend largely on the effectiveness of Communist propaganda and political control...
Both sides of the Stadium are sold out, whether the remaining 22,000 seats will be filled, will depend on how many spectators will be game enough to brave the expected rain...
Continuous Creation. According to Einstein's relativity, four-dimensional space (three dimensions plus time) is in a sense "curved," and its curvature and therefore its "size" depend on the amount of matter within it. If more matter were added, space would have to stretch, carrying the galaxies with it. Why not, asked Bondi and Gold, figure out how much matter would have to be added to make the galaxies recede at the observed rate? The answer, dragged from thickets of mathematics, came out very simple. One atom of hydrogen, they calculated, must be added to each quart of space...