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...partially because of the usual fluctuation in half courses. Graduate students in that department were more numerous in the fall than ever before but already four or five of them have entered the armed services. The Psychology Department has as yet noticed less of a shift along these lines...
First, welding began to replace riveting in ship-and plane-building (TIME. Dec. 15). Now cast steel is replacing forged steel, and in tanks it is replacing both riveted and welded armor plate. Engineers call this technological shift "little short of a revolution...
...annual varsity crew shell, donated by Robert F. Herrick '90, arrived at the Newell Boat House yesterday morning, and the effects of the war were hardly noticeable. Its weight, 270 pounds, is the same as last year's shell, and the same wood stock was used. Most important waste shift back to the old type of rope controlled steering gear...
Both of the baesball games with Yale will be played here in a doubleheader on June 6, the Yale Athletic Association has announced. It has usually been the custom to hold one at New Haven and the second at Cambridge the following weekend, but a shift was necessitated by the accelerated academic program adopted by the Elis...
...inevitable sequel, the Japanese air attack on the Australian mainland (see p. 16). But it had happened dizzily fast. Seeing it coming and feeling the crunch of its presence were two different things. Sweat poured from the national pores; and beneath the sweat there was a sudden profound shift in the nation's war thinking, a lurching adjustment to the fact that the waking nightmare was no dream...