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...Alumni have been asked to help, and the University has achieved near miracles on a shoe-string investment. But the fact remains that unless the University administration matches talk with cash, unless emergency units of almost any sort are set up within the next three months, close to 20 percent of the student body must forego either their families or their education...
...number of G.I. personnel in France, Belgium and Holland decreased in response to demands to "bring the boys home," P.W.s have become indispensable. Ninety percent of the personnel handling, repairing, conserving and hauling the hundreds of million dollars' worth of U.S. surplus material are now German P.W.s. Through error, the names of P.W.s even sneaked into the recent telephone directory of Western Base Section Headquarters in Paris. The directory was quickly withdrawn and purged...
...chose the first course. Its bill would wipe out all food subsidies, guarantee every producer and distributor a "reasonable" (and undefined) profit margin, and end price controls whenever production of an article reached the 1941 level. That combination of pressure-group policies would raise the indexes a good 25 percent at once, with further sharp boosts to follow as output really begins to flow. Establishing 1941 supply s the norm looks good at first sight, but on closer examination resembles an attempt to measure the avalanche with a rain-gauge. For five years the consumer has been starved for goods...
...bewildering 8th of December, 1941 when they decided, "we can see that it is our job to fight, and we are not only willing but eager to accept our task." Realistic, constructive thinking reached its summit when in early 1943 a poll of student opinion indicated that ninety-six percent favored "some sort of world council or international union after the war" and a great majority committed themselves to a permanent international police force. At that time the Crimson optimistically began a series of "articles on post-war problems and planning by outstanding authorities on the tasks that will beset...
...latest gesture to the upward spiral of living costs, the University has granted pay raises to as 10 percent to its non-academic employees. Yet Harvard officialdom seems callously unconcerned about the needs of its student workers who depend upon the pay of their term-time jobs to meet a sizeable portion of their college expenses. Wages for students employed by or through the University have remained unchanged since long before the war. Baby-sitters still receive 25 cents an hour; House librarians, 35; students working in the dining halls or on odd jobs are paid 60 cents an hour...