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Called to lay the groundwork for a proposed American National Students Organization, the Chicago meeting will set up a committee to work out definite proposals during the winter to be submitted to a full-scale constitutional assembly scheduled for next June...
...Kierkegaard's 100-year-old philosophy seems well fitted to these days. It is basic to the modern Protestant "crisis theology" of Karl Barth; its influence is strong on the great Spanish Catholic philosopher, Miguel de Unamuno; it is the groundwork for France's atheistic, postliberation fad of "existentialism." Protestants, Catholics and atheists who would like to sample the thought of the great Dane without reading all 20 translated volumes should welcome last week's publication of A Kierkegaard Anthology, edited by youthful (33) Kierkegaard- enthusiast Robert Bretall (Princeton University...
...expressed a conviction that the burden of responsibility for a proper intellectual groundwork merely had been shifted to the secondary schools and Freshman advisors. An intelligent regard by them to the real needs of students would result in a background better suited to each zan's individual necessities...
...Corridor conferences were held in a Geneva restaurant whose walls were hung with malicious caricatures of statesmen of the Europe which had just died. Cigaret smoke spiraled spectrally across figures of Laval, Briand, Chamberlain, Mussolini, as the intellectuals discussed the mistakes of the past and tried to lay a groundwork for a new pan-European peace of the mind...
Raymond Mathieu, 22, clean-cut, bespectacled law student: "I was brought up with Socialist ideas, my family prepared the groundwork. I joined the Communist Party because it's dynamic...