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These photographs were taken by Maynard M. Miller '43 and William R. Latady, members of the seven-man expedition which scaled the peak, Alaska's second highest, last summer. Latady, a president of the HMC, left Cambridge recently on an Antarctic voyage with Commander Finn Ronney. His films, 2800 feet of them, are all 16mm color photos, covering all aspects of the climb...
...batch of returns came in last week. And U.S. industry found that, despite strikes, shortages and controls in 1946, actual profits lived up to the great expectations. The big boost came in the final quarter of 1946. Then, the Department of Commerce estimated, production had increased to such a peak that the national income (wages, rents, net corporate profits, etc.) was at a rate of $173 billions annually v. $164 billions for the whole year...
...situation looks hopeful for all subway-riding students, and with enrollment past its peak, Watson states definitely that "two terms will be the maximum time before every student is housed. For men who have commuted since September this will be their last term, and in a year we expect the whole situation to be pretty much back to normal," Watson continued...
President Conant spoke not so long ago about "tough-minded idealism." The trouble with many of the old idealists, the ones whose influence should now be approaching a peak, is that they have become tough--or perhaps the better word is "hard", and brittle--and soft inside. They are safe from the depredations of new ideas; they find it easier to chew their own fat. The man Mr. Conant is thinking of may have a tender skin, but his nerves are awake and he is well-muscled...
...Winter finds the collective health of the entire University population at an almost all-time peak. Absences from classes because of illness have been practically non-existent; people who formerly carried their coughs into examinations and theaters seem temporarily to have dropped out of sight; in a year when University enrollment has doubled, the number of patients in Stillman stands at one-third of the normal figure. Data from hospitals throughout the Boston area testify that the notable absence of colds, pneumonia, and other respiratory ailments is not something peculiar to Harvard. While such a situation is indeed heartening...