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...Information and Education Program performed its most valuable function in keeping the Army of the United States a citizen-army. Now that Berlin and Tokio have been conquered, it is required more than ever to teach an ever-younger American soldier why he is needed for occupation duty, what he can do in the interests of world peace, and how he can return to his community to become an informed and useful citizen. In an Army still fumbling with the recommendations of the Doolittle Board and with reformation of the courts-martial system, I & E stands out as a happy...
...this year 274 of the news stories TIME has printed have been contributed (or substantially contributed to) by our Chicago news bureau. Of all TIME'S 13 domestic bureaus (whose function is to give TIME its own intimate coverage of nationally interesting local news). Chicago has the most difficult geographical assignment. Its territory extends west to the Black Hills of the Dakotas, south as far as Oklahoma...
Laugh, Clown, Laugh. "It is ... the particular function of comedy to destroy the more trifling dignities of this earth: quality varies with the shape and size of the dignities it destroys. Pantomime goes with a whack to the seat of the pants; slapstick goes with peel or pie to any section of the anatomy which presents itself; Shaw, a Mack Sennett of the Parlour, trips up the prejudices. The quality deepens till, in Swift, you tumble up the human race itself...
While taking their place in the working society, Harvard men become increasingly aware of permanent ties with the University. Perhaps the most routine of all alumni functions, or at least the function that brings the College into the minds of its graduates with the greatest frequency, is that of fundraising. Individually, alumni of the University have endowed Harvard with a great percentage of the 200 million dollars that form the capital backbone of the institution. But where these individual gifts come as a matter of individual, unorganized devotion, a large segment of the funds of the University are channeled through...
...student welfare. The quality of the delegates may well determine the success or failure of the Chicago conference, for in the past student gatherings have invariably sunk knee-deep in weighty resolutions instead of chasing after specific objectives. If a student organization can be set up now to function forcefully on such questions as GI allotments, the miserable condition of public education in the South, and religious and racial quotas in schools, the student's part in American education will have vastly increased in scope...