Word: problems
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Quincy, evidently, has a strong program of seminars, as do Kirkland and Dudley. In fact, over one quarter of the students involved in the program are in Dudley. Adams, with a similar offering including five groups, has only 17 undergraduates attending meetings regularly. (Because of the problem of opening the new buildings, Leverett will not start its program full force until the Spring Term...
...read almost in disbelief, the CRIMSON article (Monday, Nov. 7) concerning the discussion on the Cuban problem held by the Cuba Committee of the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union. The article quoted Dean Bundy, who said that, "The survival of the present Cuban government constitutes a challenge to the ideals of the Latin American republics." Dean Bundy also, "asserted that it would be difficult for us not to support a movement on the part of true Latin American liberals to depose the current regime...
...Anger and urgency assail me," snaps Harvard College's Dean John Monro about a problem that roils educators across the country. It is the sad fact-and the underside of U.S. education-that hundreds of thousands of talented and sometimes brilliant youngsters not only lack the means to go to college but do not even aspire to go. Many among them are what sociologists gingerly call the "culturally deprived"-Negroes, Puerto Ricans, poor whites-who do not know that they are bright. Others are slum and farm kids ignored by crowded colleges because they go to "wrong" schools...
...began for the first time in more than two years to deal in bonds as well as bills.) Kennedy has not gone all-out for "easy money." He has said: "We are also aware that sharp declines in the short-term rate can further aggravate the balance-of-payments problem...
...balance-of-payments and gold-outflow problem, the U.S. last week got some help from abroad. Responding to heavy pressure from the Eisenhower Administration, West Germany lowered its discount rate from 5% to 4%, and its bank rates for loans from 6% to 5%, thus weakening a magnet that has been drawing gold from the U.S. Kennedy seems sure to insist strongly, as did Ike, that West Germany and other U.S. allies help more in defending the free world against Communism, thus relieving the U.S. of some of its heavy foreign spending...