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...belt" made necessary by a decrease in income is not a problem which faces Harvard alone. Every college and University in the land is sweating over the same difficulty. A large part of Harvard's funds comes from tuition fees, so that an enrollment slump due to the draft will have its effect directly. For state-endowed institutions the situation is just as serious, however; for they rely partly on enrollment, but much more on appropriations from the state legislatures, who are apt to be more and more chary of grants for education because of the pressure of defense...
...puzzler for every department of the University. Since salaries are to remain intact, the ten per cent economics will have to come mainly in administrative expenses: heat, light, telephones, secretarial service, and other non-teaching activities; and in part from not filling vacancies caused by death or the draft. "Unessential" services will have to be shorn off. Senior Faculty members will have to curtail their writing and research in order to take over teaching duties of the younger men called upon for government service. It is a question whether the ten per cent cut will suffice: the estimate is based...
...American Friends Service Committee had already opened its second work camp for C. O.s in Patapsco State Forest near Baltimore. Soon the Quakers, the Mennonites and the Church of the Brethren will have ten camps set up for the 6,700 C. O.s so far turned up by the draft...
More than 500 C. O.s got U. S. prison sentences in 1917-18. In 1941 they are faring better. Those who are certified by their local draft boards and the national board in Washington as having proved scruples against armed service can enroll in work camps, will pay $30-$35 a month toward their keep (other churchmen will pay for it if they cannot), will work eight hours a day at reforestation, flood control, irrigation, control of soil erosion, other jobs of the C. C. C. type. The C. O.'s day, like the Army's, will begin...
After announcing he might seek draft deferment because his football team needed him (TIME, Jan. 20), Sportsman-Socialite Dan Topping, angel of the Brooklyn Dodgers and husband of Skater Sonja Henie, got off because he had stomach ulcers...