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...course rate left students with neither time nor material for the integration necessary to the success of Harvard education. Science students, particularly, found it impossible to digest the full quota of factual material usually presented, while those with long lab assignments were over-whelmed by the attempt to jam sixteen weeks' work into the five-and-one-half allotted. Short exam periods immediately following final lectures cut out all review and forced students to resort to "coffee-and-benzadrine" cramming. The impossibility of tutorial in the Summer Session removed the last vestige of Harvard's traditionally thorough training...
...High-altitude precision bombing could be crippling if delivered in a pattern so that the Iowa's speed and maneuverability couldn't save her. More damaging would be close-in, suicidal plane attack-and even with her announced 20-gun, 5-inch secondary battery, sixteen 1.1-inch anti-aircraft guns and unannounced small-caliber armament, the Iowa alone couldn't stave...
...F.A.U. has other units at work in Libya (Tobruk), Syria and Ethiopia. Sixteen men were lost in Greece. Already two F.A.U. men in China have died of typhus and one was captured by Japanese in Hong Kong. The major operation in China involves transport of medical supplies to hospitals. . . . The program is largely financed with American funds from United China Relief...
...Airlines v. Air Freight. While his future enemies were debating how many angels with 60-lb. field packs could stand on the point of a pin, Hitler accumulated transports for Norway, Crete and Libya. Sixteen percent of the Luftwaffe consisted of transports...
...Sixteen members of the Outing Club with 35 guests in tow set off to Houghton Pond in the Blue Hills from the stops of Widener last Saturday to celebrate a non-explosive Fourth. Entertained with a soft-ball game, swimming, and a three-group like up Blue Hill, and nourished by Howie Oedel '43 and his two assistants, Win Bernard '43 and Bob Townsend '43, the trip ended successfully at 7 o'clock with a bus ride back to Cambridge...