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...There are many reasons why students have failed so miserably in the past several years to maintain creditable scholastic standing and make sound academic records. . . . The present generation has been weaned on the comic strip. It has absorbed huge, indigestible amounts of outrageously inane (for the most part) Hollywood movie fare. It has been given cheap, miserably lean radio entertainment. In short, the younger generation hasn't been given half a chance to improve itself mentally...
...greater number of visual cells. In this dimple, common to the vertebrates with the highest acuity (some birds have two in each eye), there are no rod cells. The cones are slim and tight-packed. The other common denominator is the mechanism for accommodation-ability to focus the eye, maintain a sharp image of a moving object...
Inability to maintain a first half lead brought defeat to the Crimson stickmen at the hands of a Yale ten Wednesday by the score of 6 to 4. Played at New Haven, the contest looked like a sure Harvard victory until attackman Warren of Yale got his stick to produce three goals...
...Sheean, if he could not fight, to write against "the whole system of organized injustice by which few govern many, hundreds of millions work in darkness to support a few thousands in ease . . . and the greater part of the human race has to live in filth and starvation to maintain an artificial system of profit." Sheean promised. The result was Personal History and Not Peace but a Sword (TIME, July 31, 1939), and now Between the Thunder...
True economy means wise use of resources. A sound and rational fiscal policy means the adjustment of expenditures and taxes so as to maintain high employment with national income rising as rapidly as improved techniques make possible...