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Robert Seidman '41, in his report on the tenure problem, found no fault in the University's policy of limiting the tenure of assistant professors to eight years. But the undesirable features of the program, he asserted, were that assistant professorships were to be abolished completely and that no men would be made associate professors if they did not have an opportunity to become full professors within five or ten years...
...away. How can I be gloomy with you around here?" So he goes away and leaves Charles Boyer with Miss Sullavan, and the two of them have a little gloom contest all their own. Perhaps they are not to be blamed. Perhaps it's all the plot's fault. This is hard to determine. But if you're wise, don't go down to Keith's to try to find...
...which runs at the end of its article a large box on the "Rulers of Harvard"--with the University Board of Overseers listed alongside of their positions in large corporations. The obviously-intended suggestion that James B. Conant is a Charlie McCarthy for Big Business illustrates well the chief fault of the leftist journal. Written by reporters whose mental imagery consists of David Low cartoons, the news articles by overdone cynicism and mudslinging antagonize rather than convince the reader. The Hearst tactic of headlines which exaggerate and misinterpret the stories is also used...
Benito talked a great deal about how gloriously the lion-hearted Fascisti had departed from Libya and Greece. It was all the fault of the British for attacking too soon, said he. Besides, Italy had been fighting in Ethiopia and Spain. Besides and besides, Italy was pretty brave to fight Great Britain at all ("a matter of pride that will live through the centuries"). Adolf had less explaining to do. He was full of confidence for the future: "Where British ships will appear, and where Britain will fight us, we will fight them and destroy them. . . . I have fought with...
Gimpy's only fault is that he likes to land on the way home, sometimes leads his recruits into a grassy plot for a rest and stroll, while he stumps around, gabbling officiously. But no one in Fort Monmouth's pigeon company will admit that these fine feathered soldiers ever hitch rides on Army trucks...