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...Ninety percent of my TIME reader friends feel you can't fail to agree...
...total over-all drop of 15 percent in the enrollment of the college has decimated the ranks of the Senior class. Already 59 members of the class have left for the service without waiting for their graduation. During the year since America's entry into the war seven new courses have been introduced to the war curriculum at Dartmouth as well as the stiff physical training program now standard at all colleges throughout the country...
...course will open on February 1, 1943, the "B" course on March 1, 1943, and there will be two "A" courses, one starting on January 4, 1943, the other June 21, 1943. Of those who successfully complete the program, about 85 percent are sent overseas on active duty...
...they persist in a "do-nothing" attitude, England may go through her most serious political crisis since 1911. British progressives have their first real domestic issue of the war, are determined to press it, and are solidly supported by the people. The Tory M.P.'s and their "two hundred percent fit" leader can either pass the Beveridge Plan and outrage their consciences, or reject it and anger their constituents...
Right behind with 82 percent and $971 is Leverett, but the drop becomes sharp at this point. Eliot, next in line, has collected only 74 percent, although the total for the House is $1,034, and Dunster's figures are 44 percent and $420. The clubs have not reported...