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Dean Buck and Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government, will be among the speakers at a mass meeting on the General Education Report to be held at Paine Hall in the Music Building on the evening of November...
This week Vargas backers rioted in the streets. Tough Joao Alberto Lins de Barros, chief of the powerful federal police force, resigned, and Getulio's sinister, trigger-happy brother, Benjamin, replaced him. Canny old War Minister General Pedro Aurelio Goes Monteiro also stepped out. The commander of the Rio de Janeiro military district ordered all enlisted Army, Navy and Air Force personnel to report to their barracks. The city tensed; U.S. officials ordered all U.S. sailors off the streets...
Assisted by Benjamin F. Wright, chairman of Harvard's Government Department, the Student Government sent out questionnaires and discovered that only five out of 579 "joint instructees" thought that tutorial should be limited to Dean's List students, and only 14 thought it should be limited exclusively to honors candidates...
...Benjamin Franklin would never have been admitted to Harvard, declared Harvard's President James Bryan Conant-at the same time conceding that failure to get in would doubtless have made "little or no difference" to him. Speaking at Chapel Hill (see EDUCATION), President Conant recalled that higher education in Poor Richard's time was largely a luxury of the wealthy, and busy-brained Ben lacked both "social and financial status...
...Emergency Council says the issue is settled, but even Smith anticipates new battles. "The old board will need plenty of money, though, to publish a Spec privately," says Smith; "Mr. Hubbard (Benjamin Hubbard, head of KCAC) will okay our printing bills and he won't okay anyone else...