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President Conant's Chapel speech is noteworthy for its bluntness. Saying little that has not been implied before, it nevertheless confirms authoritatively what every college student has anticipated: perhaps by February, certainly by June, the peacetime function of the colleges will be incompatible with the demands of total war. The storm signals have been out for months, but students and faculty members have clung to the hope that the colleges might preserve the liberal tradition. President Conant's plan for the war colleges recognize the futility of that hope...
...Bear and Mature himself, with Saroyanish overtones. He hides buzzers in his palms when shaking hands, wears zoot suits, and is in general a card. Parodying himself with boyish abandon, Mature seems much more at home than in such heavy stuff as "One Million B.C." The main function of his co-star in the proceedings, Betty Grable, is, as always, to exude femininity. She does this unremittingly and well...
...ease raw-material shortages, the fact that WPB-which has no control over manpower or prices-is intrinsically a poor substitute for a genuine Economic High Command. And it still remains to be seen whether even really top-drawer industrial executives can get Washington's huge bureaucracy to function-or will be able to put up temperamentally with its futility...
...University cannot make this choice for him. Harvard's function has been predicated on assumptions foreign to the dynamic demands of war. Ultimately the decision, for the undergraduate and for the University, must come from those directly responsible for the military effort. Harvard may be able to train military specialists, but Harvard's peculiar task as a university is to train educated men. Therein lies her virtue and her honor. Only when the war is over can she come back into...
...Argentine Chamber of Deputies voted last week, 66-to-22, to ask Minister of Interior Miguel Culaciati to explain why he had not suppressed "the activities of the German National Socialist Party, which continues to function in Argentina under the name of the Federation of German Welfare and Cultural Clubs...