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...Harvard CRIMSON has a more important function than merely to report the activities of the University. It should lead student thinking and should interpret the student point of view. It frequently has had an important role in molding the character of the University. It can have a very definite part in seeing to it that students of the University appreciate the opportunity of acquiring a superior education...
...ambitious undergraduate, the Harvard CRIMSON offers an experience in practical journalism, politics and business which is hard to match. Its function as a constructive force in the evaluation of University policy and as a vehicle of student opinion is of self-evident importance to the University management: Few of us who worked on the CRIMSON will forget the satisfaction it brought us to see some of our needing result in significant changes in policy. The friendships formed at the CRIMSON through feverish efforts to meet deadlines and struggles to keep the paper solvent are likely to be lasting...
...Committee for conducting a vote which had more Freshmen casting ballots than Yard elections have seen in a long time--a vote which probably gave the class as good a chance to loosen up and get to know each other (which is, despite Harvard's high academic plane, the function of the smoker which the committee is to arrange) as they have had since entering Harvard...
...budget Congress is confronted with the probability that any cuts will alienate a considerable section of voters or will endanger the security and welfare of the nation, or both. Everybody favors "economy in government"; but no one favors eliminating what is, or what is thought to be, a useful function of the government. When the time comes to make the actual appropriations, there will be a lot of high flown verbiage. The halls of Congress will resound with sonorous oratory. But the amount appropriated will be just about as much, or more, than the budget recommendations of the President...
...better-than-beauty, has an almost reptilian fascination; she is, indeed, the most fatale-looking femme since Garbo. But it remains an open question whether she can act. Hitchcock, keeping her nearly motionless, plies her with one slow, cold, lambent close-up after another. Some of these close-ups function forcefully in the storytelling; but too many are as nonfunctional as her frequent changes of hairdo. It looks as if Hitchcock, one of the smartest directors of women in the business, had been required, in Valli's case, merely to glamorize a new Selznick star. Newcomer Jourdan does respectably...