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...Hope (1937), one of his characters said: "The danger is that every man carries the desire for an apocalypse in himself. . . . By its very nature, the Apocalypse has no future-not even when it pretends to have one. . . . Our modest function . . . is to organize the Apocalypse...
Going on ten years old. the Hooper agency employs 500 people (including twelve experts in New York whose only function, says Hooper, is to smooth the ruffled hair of hucksters). Its income last year was $983,000. For 1947, things are looking...
Final examinations are now the chief obstacle in the committee's way, Chairman John A. Quisenberry '46 declared last night, for the group will cease to function during the exam period unless additional volunteers are found to aid it in its work...
Another important springtime function of the office is the mailing and counting of Alumni ballots for Overseers, directors of the Alumni Association, and the Harvard Fund Council. More than 11,000 votes were cast last year in the overseers elections, all of which were handled by a special counting system in this office...
Although the original Committee on General Education pulled few punches in examining the role of secondary schools, little has occurred recently to dispel the widely-held impression that the Committee was beating invisible wings when it spoke out on the function of the high and prep school. Within the academic walls undergraduates have seen the visible fruits of "General Education in a Free Society," but little, unfortunately, seems to have drifted out into the public and private schools to ground the future college student with the kind of training which should lead up to the newly inaugurated program...