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...renewed winter offensive, the Communists had at last fully disrupted the railroad between Peiping and General Wei's headquarters in Mukden. That meant that there was no longer a land corridor into Manchuria for the Nationalists. Ninety-nine percent of the land area of Manchuria was in the hands of the Reds; 1% was in General Wei's. That 1% consisted principally of the cities of Mukden, Changchun, Kirin and Szepingkai-dwindling islands of resistance. What remained for the Communist armies under General Lin Piao was simply...
Significant factor in the situation is the nature of Dr. Kinsey's data, which is drawn in substantial amount from Swarthmore itself. Of the 5000 males whose sex histories comprise the first volume of the Kinsey Report, slightly over 100, or two percent, are Swarthmore...
...meet the increase in applicants for entrance to the school, today's student enrollment is 50 percent above the level of the 1930s, and teaching programs have been greatly expanded, Dean David claimed. Nevertheless, "we are forced to deny admission to hundreds of men whom we would accept in normal times...
Also in the report, David estimated that 95 percent of the School are veterans, with the average student around 27. Last year's graduates entered manufacturing, marketing, and finance in that order, according to Business School surveys...
With more sorrow than surprise, the undergraduate found in his mailbox Sunday an announcement of a 30 percent jump in room rents. The increase was far from unexpected. Although expenses at Harvard had risen much less than elsewhere, it became clear that the administration could not hold the line when other colleges, such as Columbia, were already announcing their second round of rent boosts...