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Other members of the committee in addition to Bundy and Blackmer are E. Harris Harbison, professor of History at Princeton, Charles Seymore, Jr., associate professor of the History of Art at Yale, and Henry W. Bragdon and Dr. Wendell Taylor of Exeter and Lawrenceville respectively...
Miss Nancy C. Lawson, president of Bragdon Hall, extended the invitation in a letter to Inter-House Social Committee Chairman William D. Weeks...
...recent Detroit race riots emphasized the importance of the investigations being carried on by the Harvard Summer Workshop in Intercultural Relations. Located in Lawrence Hall, in the School of Education, and headed by Clifford R. Bragdon, this group is studying the problem of prejudice on the assumption that the best solution is a more effective use of the public schools to teach a more real democracy...
...Says Bragdon, the recent race riots are "volcanic eruptions of underlying heat and pressures of hate and fear of hate. They can not be blamed on the war, and we can't, by making subversive groups the scapegoats escape our social responsibility." As for the schools solving the problem of inter-racial tensions, he reminds us that "the public can't expect the school to combat prejudice by itself, but at the same time, the school does have a part to play...
...Institute will open today at 9 o'clock with the registration, followed by the opening session at 10, when talks on the Philippines and Indo-China will be given by Catherine Porter and Olov R. T. Jense, while Clifford Bragdon, a Sheldon Fellow here, will act as a chairman...