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...tendency of grownups to get fed up with Youth. Thereupon I. S. S.'s advisers-among them: Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Dwight Morrow, Congressional Librarian Archibald MacLeish, Smith's President-emeritus William A. Neilson, Williams' Professor Max Lerner-decided that the organization should have as its main function teaching youth "to think historically and to act with restraint." Said they: "Organized 'action groups' . . . have been able to secure much greater influence than their relatively small numbers deserve...
Powelson was accompanied last night by John P. Powelson '41, who is following in his brother's footsteps despite the fact that he was unable to attend the function last year. Neither of them stay to listen to the speeches...
...total of perhaps 2,500 tons of destruction from 16 British bases. Its purpose was the slow, sure crippling of German industry for a war that might run on for years. Repeated bombings of the same place time after time, until repairs are discouraged and the place and its function abandoned, are the kind of bombings that stick. The British pattern for Germany was unvaried for more than four months. Concentrated in the coal-seamed Ruhr district between the Rhine and Ems Rivers was a high percentage of Germany's war industry-synthetic oil, steel, chemicals, munitions-and important...
Composed of Overseers and outsiders chosen for their interest in a particular field, the committee's function is to advise the various departments of the University. They exercise no actual control of policy, and the position is largely honorary...
...these purposes the first was either in example of current idealism or referred to a contemporary condition of laxness, and the second is now a minor duty of that body. Expressing undergraduate opinion to the governing boards of the University is now the Council's main function...