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...with the future of our liberal arts would do well, it seems to me, to direct their first attention on what type of general education should be supplied to our high school students. For surely it is not the liberal education or the lack of its among the ten percent of each age group who normally study arts and letters in our colleges which will determine the future of our freedom. It is the attitude of the other 90 per cent which will be the controlling factor in our ability to resist an attack of totalitarian ideas...
Earl Brown's charges, back from the Point, were mumbling to themselves this morning as they talked about the amazing Cadets. In administering the worst beating the Varsity has absorbed all winter, the West Pointers couldn't miss from anywhere on the floor; they dropped almost 50 percent of their shots, and Frank Philpott and Bill Hall, who garnered 46 markers between them, clicked even more often. Judging solely by the way they played yesterday, the Cadets were the best team Harvard has yet faced...
...beginning of the Army program in May, so the demands of the armed forces have made a three term year imperative. Faced with the prospect of teaching College, Summer School, a four-term Army school, and a three-term Navy School with the same faculty, now depleted by 30 percent, the College had to strike at its least useful branch. Closer integration of faculty as signment, of College planning and administration will result from the abolition of the Summer School...
...tables make allowance for personal exemption, earned income credit, and deductions aggregating 6 percent of gross income. This percentage is used as an average of the deductions which would be claimed were the simplified form not available...
...about time someone spoke up for the majority of the 99.9 percent of American citizens who are not Communists but who believe that justice toward our fellow Negro citizens is one of the most consistent means of maintaining the basic tenets of American democracy based on the liberty of the individual. This is one of the chances we get to prove the superiority of the American system...