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Only 939 Freshman registered at Memorial Hall yesterday, thus making the Class of 1940 one of the smallest that has entered Harvard in recent years. Sixty-six transfer students brought the total up to 1005 new men, but this was short of the 1081 admitted. It is expected that about 70 additional Yardlings will register tomorrow...
...Very few members of the war classes attained distinction, and the number of misfits and downright rascals was considerable. Ephraim Eliot, who in after life became an apothecary, has left us a mordant account of his own class of 1780, thirty strong at graduation. One, a transfer from Yale to the senior class, was 'a good scholar and respectable'; a second, a transfer from Dartmouth, was 'a decent scholar, and rather more than a quack doctor'; and there were also three or four 'respectable characters' who had not been to other colleges. But there was a sad example...
...Schacht trick has been a feat of State bookkeeping, does not involve the printing of marks of different kinds. In the main, Dr. Schacht's procedure has been simply to hold or "block" in Germany payments owed to a foreigner and refuse to transfer them to him abroad. The foreigner was told that he could use these "blocked marks" to buy goods in Germany or could sell them to someone else in his own country who wished to do so. Obviously the foreign creditor could sell his blocked marks only at a discount and the effect of this...
Another Vatican Voice: A transatlantic telephone call took place between Father Coughlin and a Vatican official. If, after a private warning to Father Coughlin, it becomes necessary to transfer him to another diocese, the Holy Father would prefer to make the transfer himself rather than take any action which might reflect upon Bishop Gallagher...
After Harvard, Dos Passos went to Spain, with the idea of studying architecture. Instead, he enlisted in a French ambulance service, transferred to the A. E. F. as a private in the Medical Corps. He wrote his first book (One Man's Initiation), a story based on his war experience, published in England. As a correspondent and free lance in Spain, after the Armistice, he wrote his second, Three Soldiers, which made him a name in the U. S. with its four-letter realism. With Manhattan Transfer (1925), in which he started experimenting with the form he later perfected...