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...last week over 3000 students of Queens College boycotted classes. Earlier this month similar walk-outs were staged by 1400 students at Hunter and Bronx Colleges. The demonstrations were part of a controversy over what the New York Times has called "the student's freedom to listen and learn...
...lacking an effective city organization, had some reason to feel encouraged by the outcome. Lefkowitz, polling 836,553 votes, did better than expected and carried ten of 65 assembly districts, including the entire borough of Richmond (Staten Island), which Wagner won by 18,600 votes in 1957. In The Bronx, running with the support of the labor-backed Liberal Party, Republican Joseph F. Periconi won the borough presidency from a hand-picked candidate of Congressman Charles Buckley, most puissant of the Democratic bosses. In the 25-man city council, the G.O.P. doubled its strength-jumping, that is, from one seat...
Martin and Muriel Cantor, who live in The Bronx, N.Y., have three children of their own; in past years they have had a total of five foster children, including three who live with them now. Says Mrs. Cantor of the twins whom they reared for 13 months: "They had come in diapers with clouded minds. They walked out like prince and princess. Our losing them was my great sorrow, but their return to their parents was my great victory...
...other words, my prejudice is for a Harvard College with a certain range and mixture and diversity in its student body--a college with some snobs and some Scandanavian farm boys who skate beautifully and some bright Bronx premeds, with some students who care passionately if unwisely (but who knew about editing the Crimson or beating Yale, or who have an ambition to run a business and make a million, or to elected to public office, a college which not all the students have looked on school just as preparation for college, college as preparation for grade school and graduate...
...asked for a College "with some snobs and some Scandinavian farm boys who can skate beautifully and some bright Bronx pre-meds, with some students who care passionately about editing the Crimson or beating Yale ... Won't even our top-one-per-cent be better men and better scholars for being part of such a college...