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...Rinchart Publishing Company has lately brought out on the market a new series of paperbound books which, with the gradually disappearing GI subsidy, is going to mean considerable saving to the undergraduate in the Humanities. Modern Library, which was such a good thing when it first came out, has not only been steadily increasing its prices but lately taken to putting flashy dust-jackets on its issues in an apparent attempt to cover up the deteriorating quality of its insides. The catalogue of Modern Library is still without equal, but Rinchart's thick paper at least allows the student...
...federal government is giving plenty of aid to education as it is--most of it by direct subsidy through the GI Bill--and it has given plenty in the past, beginning with land grants for colleges in the last century, and school-house building programs in the Depression. What the various pressure groups desire is that the money forthcoming from the Eighty-First Congress will be unconditional--no strings attached. What they desire more fervently, of course, is the money itself...
...automatic machines at the Boston treasury office was the cause of the trouble. It started missing a cylinder last week, and before the difficulty was detected it had issued 500 GI subsistence vouchers completely made out except for the amount...
...result of a recent Supreme Court decision, it is now possible for the Veterans Administration to begin the nationwide auditing job necessary before payment of the first dividend on the GI insurance, an information bulletin from the VA, released here by the Counsellor for Veterans Office, discloses...
...word must be said about the acting and the direction, because both are excellent. The large cast has obviously been chosen with great care, for each actor seems really to be a GI, easily identifiable even to regional distinctions. Paul Kelly, as the general with the decision to make, and Jay Fassett '16, as the general more interested in another cluster than in ending the war, are both good. And James Whitmore, as a sergeant and master at the delicate art of insulting officers without any personal danger, just about walks off with the show. The direction of John...