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...cover them. As one result the Law School student body, famously busy as it is, now published its own weekly Record. You could not guess from the CRIMSON that Harvard's hometown of Cambridge has been batting successfully, for some years, toward a sound municipal government. Some 75 percent of Harvard students are veterans receiving government benefits, but if you want to read about the ins and outs of the local V.A., the progress of veterans legislation at the State House and in Washington, you will not find it in the CRIMSON. When the Massachusetts legislature has bills under consideration...
...instance, some time ago a number of you noticed an interesting discrepancy in one issue. On page 31 we ran an advertisement of a pharmaceutical manufacturer calling attention-in small type-to "a diphtheria increase of more than 18 percent during the past year." On page 56 our Medicine department had a story which said that there had been "an approximate 30% rise in cases (of diphtheria) last year." TIME got its figures from the United States Public Health Service; the ad's figure erred only in being very conservative. But the fact remained that readers had to read...
...contending that American free enterprise has failed to solve the problems of unemployment, monopoly, and inefficiency, the Oxford representatives, Anthony N. W. Benn and David K. Harris supported the affirmative, asserting that nationalization of only 20 percent of industry has solved these problems for England...
Countering Benn's argument that centralization of economic policy extends both political and economic freedom of the people, William P. D. Bailey '46 of the Debate Council warned that nationalization can only mean socialism, and that just 20 percent but the entire economy would be controlled...
Cramer is a talkative man. He told me about the "good old days" when be was established in a whole floor of offices over Hayes-Bickford, as the Parker-Cramer Tutoring School. "We used to have three or four hundred students," he said wistfully. "Sometimes as many as fifty percent of the men in a course were coming...