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While undergraduates fix their attention on the war, the Faculty has before it a proposal that would undermine Harvard education. Already it has adopted a ruling to limit tutorial instruction this summer to Senior honors candidates, and is considering the proposal that tutorial in the future be given only to men in Group IV and above. Although some Faculty members hope that the latter proposal will not be adopted, action is necessary to ensure its defeat. The main hope of intelligent self-education must not be killed by the war-time trend toward spoon-feeding students with science...
...nothing at all, because his interpretative range is clearly limited. But after the magnificent Koussevitzky performances of this season, a faultlessly prepared feast of succulent classics salted down with as many novelties as could be played without losing balance, this added literary proof of "Koussy's" musical scholarship should fix his claim to the title of America's most versatile and talented director, what Carlyle would have called the Hero as Conductor...
...things that gave it the highest standards of living in the world, had gone to war. The luxuries were gone; some necessities were going; days lean as razorbacks were ahead. To share what was left the U.S. had two choices: it could have inflation, or it could fix prices, drain off public purchasing power and try to divide the available goods equally by ration...
Japanese flying ships are playing over the Mandalay Road in a fashion Kipling never imagined. Jap pilots fix towns under their sights like bugs beneath a microscope, stab them with hundreds of incendiary plummets, consume wide wooded areas and wipe out scores of villages. Flames nightly lick the demi-jungle under a full yellow moon, so that a ghastly orange ring encircles Burmese arsonists, looters, desolate lines of Indians' oxcarts beginning to go northward on their long hegira to India, and Chinese trucks, cyclists, American scout cars and artillery going southward to the front...
...just about right. Said he: "If we'd finished the job when we were there, you wouldn't be going now." Said the son: "You had your April the sixth; we've got our December the seventh. . . . This time we're going to fix it so this thing can't ever happen again...