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...reasons for the News Poll, said Miss Reinert, is to get the opinions of all the students, since the committee could give the opinion of only a fraction...
...less than 33,382 cases were reported to the Public Health Service in 1953 (and reported cases are believed to be only a fraction of the actual total). The latest P.H.S. figures, for the third week in January, show 1,214 cases, or almost double the 1953 rate, though much of the apparent increase is due to better reporting...
...than I had remembered them. Not least is the opportunity to be taught by a distinguished university faculty. Incidentally, I might add here that though some careless, unfavorable remarks have been made recently to the press about certain Harvard teachers, the facts, at least concerning all but a miniscule fraction are clearly wholly other than these would suggest. It is true that considerable use is made of Teaching Fellow . . . but it does not necessarily follow that this means inferior teaching. I am confident there are many occasions when it means just the opposite...
Over the years, only a fraction of the older ones have been able to find work in their own fields. Today, 111 U.S. colleges and universities have Chinese teachers, and the Army Language School at Monterey, Calif, employs 76. The engineers and doctors usually get jobs, and so do most of the scientists. But the lawyers, diplomats, economists, executives and government officials are in fields that the institute calls "un-eatables." Too old to start all over again, most eke out a living at menial jobs...
...also hopelessly impractical, for, while not disturbing one whit the heavy responsibility laid on the federal government, it deprives that agency of all but a fraction of the power necessary to discharge it. One suspects that behind the Senator's oratory lies the same isolationism which has marked his wing of the GOP for years, that the amendment is simply a bigger and better version of the wild attacks on the State Department. Unable to succeed straightforwardly, Bricker and his colleagues have launched an oblique attack, seeking to abolish foreign entanglements by abolishing the power to make them. They ignore...