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...understanding and isolating what it is to be black and what it is to be white, can we realize what it is to be simply human. Only then will race and color become insignificant." The latter: "Conscience is the motivation for the liberal only because real respect is absent. Colored pride and white respect must be enkindled, and if the white community cannot do it, some think the Muslims...
...hard to overestimate the role Monro has played on the committee. From the beginning, he has been one of its strongest supporters. When the old HCUA decided to abolish itself, it gave the college a referendum offering a choice between the HCUA and the new HPC-HUC. Conspicuously absent was the choice of nothing at all; the HCUA feared, quite rightly, that if given that choice the college would take nothing. As it was, less than half of the college bothered to vote. Reed Ellis remembers Monro telling him that if the college didn't vote itself a student government...
...sparce, grave Commencement was oddly logical. For the students who had favored duty to country and universal conscription were far from "gentlemen scholars." William H. Meeker, who had been the President of the CRIMSON during that year, died the following September, 1917, at Pau, France. Like many who were absent at graduation, the Class Poet William Wilcox '17, mailed in his poem from the Newport News aviation camp. There was no Ivy Oration; the Orator, Henry Wentworth, was away in training camp...
...champagne until late into the night with some of Rome's most beautiful women, including Gina Lollobrigida. The only trouble was that the men who should have been there to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, which established the Common Market, were absent. France's Jean Monnet, generally acknowledged as the father of the Common Market, did not receive an invitation, and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, who helped draft the treaty, was asked so late that he declined to attend. Instead, the fellow...
...understanding and isolating what it is to be black and what it is to be white, can we realize what it is to be simply human. Only then will race and color become insignificant." The latter: "Conscience is the motivation for the liberal only because real respect is absent. Colored pride and white respect must be enkindled, and if the white community cannot do it, some think the Muslims...