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...several years our Association has sent Christmas seals to the students of Harvard and other colleges in Cambridge. The response in interest and money has been spontaneous and generous. Last year the per capita return from Harvard students was only 1 percent less than that of the institution with the highest rate. The heavy returns coming in daily this year from Harvard students and from students of other colleges in Cambridge demonstrate individual and personal interest in the cause for which the Christmas Seal stands...
...other major reason for dissatisfaction, the Teachers Union study indicates, is the utter lack of any quantitative work standard. While the faculty member's work week averaged 50 hours, with instructors' estimates of over 58 hours bolstering this figure, over 40 percent could not answer the question of what is considered full-time work in their department...
...confusion on this time question is accentuated, the report states, by the fact that the answers of the remaining 60 percent ranged from "the hours of the day minus that which is required for eating, sleeping, and traveling" to "what you can get away with if you want...
...back to the German domination with some gastronomic nostalgia. Now they're picking up former collaborators every week in Slovakia. So when you talk about politics, you have to divide the two regions of the republic. In the Czech section the Communists are the strongest party with about 40 percent of the Parliament seats. There are three other parties, the National Socialist (not Nazi) in second place. Meanwhile, the Slovaks are operating with four other parties, that have no connection with the Czech organizations. The Communists, who have about 28 percent of the votes in Slovakia, have no organizational ties...
This government operates in a strange way. There is always a coalition cabinet, unless of course, one party gains 100 percent of the seats. There are 25 ministers and 300 representatives. The party proportions in the ministry are the same as they are in the Parliament. That's a law. There are nine Communists in the ministry. And because the Communists are topdogs, Gottwald, the party chief, got to be Prime Minister. The Communists also have two key positions: Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Propaganda...