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...great things of truth and life cannot be measured by walls and towers, square miles and boulevards, throngs of men and women or thunderous salutes from artillery. Not the place, or the grandeur, but the honest, open heart of those who will receive Him, can mark the birth and the rule of this redeeming Savior, God's gift to the world...
...spirited but good-natured debate with Burrhus F. Skinner's '31, professors of Psychology, Aiken attacked Skinner's recent noval "Walden Two" for ". . . distracting people from doing something about the present by proposing a hypothetical future." The debate, sponsored by the Student Association for Natural and Social Sciences, took place before a capacity crowd in Harvard Hall...
When Houghton Library opened, three months after Pearl Harbor, it was described as "fireproof, earthquake-proof, and reasonably protected against the incendiary bomb." The fire inspector looked the place over and classified it in the same category as a bank vault. And now, the staff at its parvenu neighbor Lamont, (which the Houghton people refer to as "Uncle Tom's Cabin"), call it the "Jewel Box." For, besides being the University's most sumptuous bookshelf, Houghton acts as show case and safe deposit vault for one of the world's finest collections of rare books and documents...
Louisville, Kentucky: December 28, Anderson C. Dearing, Jr. '34, 5th and Court Place; Milwaukee, Wisconsin: December 30, A. William Asmuth, Jr. '38, 735 North Water Street; Baltimore: Paul P. Swett, Jr. '32, Baltimore Life Insurance Company, Charles Street; Mcmphis, Tennessee: Merrill Garcelon '25, 639 Sterick Building; Minnesota: December 30, Dwight D. Taylor, Jr. '41, Route 1, Wayzata; Omaha: December 22, Roderic B. Crane, University of Nebraska; New Canaan, Connecticut: David C. Marvin, 37 Elm Street...
...Roosevelt will appear March 17 with Harold Taylor and Dr. Marynia Farnham to discuss the topic "Woman's Place in Today's Society." Taylor is president of Sarah Lawrence College. Dr. Farnham is co-author of "Modern Woman--The Lost...