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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Half-Century, I offer . . . Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism. Dr. Herzl's movement, launched in 1897, when he predicted the re-establishment brought of the Jewish state "50 years later," brought to fruition the greatest scheme in behalf of a persecuted people . . . Dr. Herzl was the half-century's counterpart of a Biblical prophet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Roses to you for your article on Robert Hutchins. Those unfortunate undergraduates of today who are inextricably caught in the regimented and intellectually stifling institutionalization of our "modern" higher education system look to Hutchins as an Abraham Lincoln, a Thomas Paine and a Wendell Willkie all rolled into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

These three different opinions constitute the modern food problem. As was said in the nineteenth century when Memorial Hall went into operations as a voluntary commons, only time will tell how the problem will be solved

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: College Has 300 Year Food Problem | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...Adams House forum on "The Vital Center." Your reporter's incompetency was first brought to light by the story announcing the forum, in which the CRIMSON said: "The book sets forth the author's (Schlesinger, Jr.'s) theories on a possible area of agreement between moderate liberal and modern conservative opinions." Your man obviously hasn't read the book, or does not comprehend it and has been misled by the title. Mr. Schlesinger, Jr. is a radical democrat and said so at the forum; he is a member of the non-Communist Left, not a Doughface progressive. Your story also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Criticizes Forum Coverage | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

After its long run in France, where it was called "the clearest statement of individualism versus dictatorship in modern dramatic literature," "Antigone" played in London and New York. It will be HDC's first stage production this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Low Income Groups to See HDC Production, 'Antigone' | 12/7/1949 | See Source »

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