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...Secretary of State George C. Marshall told the four-power council of Foreign Ministers that no German government should be saddled with the onus of signing the treaty, but that the German people should agree in their national constitution to accept the terms of the pact...
...range the close financial surveillance that Congress has maintained over the TVA, a control that was loosened only by the needs of wartime security. With this same devotion to realities, Senator Taft has seized on the appropriations for Oak Ridge and other top secret plants, and has placed the onus of secrecy on David Lilienthal. If this was secretive "power-hungry" bureaucracy, the Senator himself urged it on the country, calling it "national security...
...onus of responsibility for the declining standard of a Harvard undergraduate education cannot be laid at any one doorstep. But perhaps part of it is inherent in the ad hoc committee system of appointments, and the yardstick employed in those appointments. Under the present method of appointments, a particular Department within the Faculty which possesses a vacancy enjoys only the power of making a recommendation for the vacancy, which must finally be approved or disapproved by a secret, Administration-selected, ad hoc committee of scholars most of whom are drawn from other universities. Such a committee visits Harvard...
Reduced working-time, although certainly a gain in itself, cannot help the dining hall employees to live as well as or better than before in the midst of rising price levels. And how does a part-time employee gain from such a contract adjustment? The onus for such failure in labor relations at Harvard lies equally with the University--intent on maintaining its traditional position of father-confessor to its employees--and with the unions, which cannot see beyond the noses of their temporary security and convenience, so easily bought by indolence...
...policy". Is it possible to guide donors into bequests and gifts that will coincide more closely with current needs? If it is true that 'Harvard can get money for the things it needs when it needs them," a feeling shared by high-ranking members of the faculty, then the onus drops back into the lap of the administration. If, as is claimed by members of the Business Staff, there is very little control over whatever money that is donated, then all the faculty and poor boys can do is pray-or go to work on the affluent alumni so that...