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...increase the scope of the survey over last year's, many smaller subjects have been included for the first time in the tabulations, a factor which should result in greater accuracy in the findings. However, in spite of this broader coverage, the number of students enrolled in all classes treated numbers 6,048 this year as compared with a previous 6,080. This seeming discrepancy is explained by the fact that 1943 numbers only 911 new Freshmen as compared with...
...other hand, if such an air offensive failed to succeed, and succeed soon, she would have incurred the strategic disadvantage of greatly widening the path and increasing the scope for the Allied air forces which would become an increasing boomerang with every stage of the latter's growth. She would also immediately simplify the British naval blockade...
...Last week Major Casey (whose hobby is flying) deplaned in Washington, with a walloping blessing from his old rival, O'Malley: "Casey has a great opportunity in America, if he leaves his Homburger hat and English side at home. He might even bring Australia within the scope of the Monroe Doctrine. If we enjoyed the privileges Canada has . . . we would not have to worry about Germany and Japan...
...succeed in widening the pigeon-hole horizons of its undergraduates. The modern language requirement should be pushed off onto the prep schools entirely, and pressure should be brought on those schools to prepare their fledglings more fully for the flight into Higher Learning. In addition, Harvard can broaden the scope of its own introductory courses, in order to make them less of a "closed shop" for concentrators in the field. It can, finally, require the choice of at least one course in each area. Realistic changes like these will meet the area plan halfway. Together they will produce a healthy...
Although Clifford Odets's "Night Music" echoes with protest, this time neither capitalist system nor class is the object of attack. Odets has taken in a far larger scope; his newest play concerns the struggle of the individual with a world that is constantly oppressive. Exuberant and brash, it criticizes the contemporary "wasteland" and glorifies a life in which human nature runs free. For Odets the answer lies in youth with its comic overtones and serious ideals. It is a play tempered with bitterness but full of hope...