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Just 20 years ago, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, deciding that it needed a news sheet for its 1,200 members, appointed a brisk little lady named Mrs. John DeWitt Peltz to put it together. The weekly Opera News got under way with no cooperation from the Met, which, even more...
Like any G.P., DeTar has his share of emergency calls. But night calls have dropped off ever since he was felled by virus pneumonia ten years ago. Although he performs minor surgery, e.g., cyst removals, suturing cuts, in his office and performs tonsilectomies in a nearby hospital, he refuses to...
¶Italy's Public Instruction Minister Paolo Rossi stirred up a storm of protest from classicists by announcing that Latin will no longer be taught in Italian junior high schools. Said the minister: "The teaching of Latin renders a bad service to those who leave school at 14 or...
One of the Fund's most important achievements was made through its most atypical action. In 1946, Thomas W. Lamont '92 gave the College $1,500,000 for the construction of a new library to supplement the inadequate Widener undergraduate facilities. With costs rising after the war, this sum was...
The President undoubtedly realizes that his heart attack has diluted his own power in foreign affairs. If he decides to run again in order to continue his commendable personal mission, he should be prepared to devote his full energies to the task of leading this country's foreign policy. If...