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After an informal poll of students in the class meeting of English 23b yesterday morning. Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, indicated that the present arrangement of the course-into Shakespearian tragedies and comedies-would be continued next year. This will supplant the list in the new catalogue, which is a return to the pre-1945 division into early and late plays...
Following approval today by the Administration, the undergraduate Food Relief Committee of the Student Council will narrow down a list of proposed items to be eliminated or reduced in the house dining halls and submit it to the Council in preparation for a poll of students on final action for aid to the starving in Europe, Co-Chairman Richard D. Campbell Jr. '48 announced last night...
...poll was a climax of an amazing experiment. To date, MacArthur's methods had been dazzlingly successful in demilitarizing Japan and in establishing the outward forms of democracy. If the Japanese still lack the inward democratic light, that could be blamed on centuries of Japanese history rather than on MacArthur's occupation policies. Only those Japanese institutions and attitudes which were impermeable to Western thought were left untouched...
...Berlin (in the U.S., British and French sectors), Social Democrats voted 3-to-1 against fusion with the Communists. (To soothe any ruffled feelings, Social Democrats then voted 3-to-1 for "cooperation" with the Communists.) In the Russian sector, no poll was permitted...
...dusty Provençal towns and Alpine foothills are a long way from Walden Pond, but he writes with a Thoreau-like conviction that the only good life is the "natural" (non-city) life. And like Thoreau, who once spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his poll tax, Giono went to jail rather than obey his government's mobilization order in September...