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Paul Osborn's "The Vinegar Tree," which they will perform through August 8, is a ten-year-old comedy of manners that, for harmless social nonsense, retains a surprising freshness. Except for a brief third-act lapse into didacticism, its clever risque dialogue will not lack punch for a generation schooled on the sharpness of Kaufman and Hart...
Some day soon the U.S. Government may be able to perform a major service for its male citizens: to tell them if & when they will be drafted...
Three hours of your time next Monday night will perform an invaluable service for the U. S. Army Air Corps. The evening will be painless, cost no money, entail no obligation, and will probably be interesting to boot. The occasion is the new mental examination which the Army Air Corps has just devised, and which will be given its first tryout at Harvard. Four hundred undergraduates are needed to act as guinea pigs, and while many Freshmen have already volunteered, the services of at least 150 upperclassmen are urgently needed...
...Washington College, the Red Cross trains men & women for overseas service with task forces. Its students include lawyers, teachers, brokers, the father of a pilot who died diving his plane into a Japanese transport. They get instruction for all sorts of odd jobs which the Red Cross now performs for the armed forces: e.g., its staffmen must know accounting, to keep the books for field units; must know how to perform such good deeds as arranging an operation for a soldier's ailing mother, or getting a job for his jobless father...
...Defense courses given in the second half year attracted approximately two-thirds of the eligible students. Early last spring, as a result of six months' further study of the war-time functions of this School and cumulative evidence that the Army and Navy wanted us to continue to perform a function for them as well as for industry, we started reconstructing the curriculum throughout. As a result, the School went on a war basis at the opening of last fall's term...