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...increasingly to foreign markets to absorb U.S. abundance, are hard hit. A bumper soybean crop in Alabama spilled out of all available storage elevators and was kept temporarily on barges. While dock workers ignored a state court's back-to-work order, one group of farmers threatened to load the crop onto ships themselves. Barges carrying the Midwest's feed-grain harvest to port were backed up at a score of wharves along the Mississippi River and the sight of corn piled high on the ground has become common. Illinois farmers have already lost some $15 million...
About half a dozen such "conscience funds" are either in operation or in registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Each is still small by industry standards (less than $2,500,000 in assets). Except for the forthcoming Dreyfus Third Century Fund, all are "no load" funds sold without a sales charge. The generalities end there, since what seems a socially desirable investment to one portfolio manager may be an abomination to another. Among the funds that allow an investor to put his money where his conscience...
Dartmouth anticipates no cutback is the number of male freshmen to be admitted under the new system, but instead will require every undergraduate to attend one summer semester. This will distribute the student load, circumventing the need for added facilities to house the extra 1000 students...
...preparation who decides upon a field of concentration which has a language prerequisite in the graduate field must take a foreign language. But if his decision to major in a particular subject is taken in his sophomore or junior year, the time-consuming language course may make his work load exceedingly strenuous, considering the concentration requirements which must also be fulfilled...
That the judgments of these committees be based on reports from the student's past teachers as well as his grades and exam scores. An undergraduate receiving credit for one or more high school courses would be able to take a reduced course load but would be subject to the general residence requirement. As now, previous work should be considered by a student, by his advisors, and by course instructors when he is planning his program or applying to courses...