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When the procession ends at about 10 a.m., J. Hampden Robb '21, University Marshal, will call, "Mr. Sheriff, pray give us order." The Sheriff does so, the invocation is given, distinguished seniors speak--in English and Latin--and Pusey then admits the Class of 1961 to "the fellowship of educated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 970 Seniors, 2,145 Graduate Students Receive Degrees in Harvard's 310th Commencement | 6/15/1961 | See Source »

Incidents involing Ernst Hanfstaengl, Hitler's foreign press secretary, brought students closer to the oppressive realities of the Thirties. Hanfstaengl was first chosen a class marshal for his 25th reunion, but he himself declined to serve after protest came from many quarters. Near the end of the year he again embarrassed Harvard by offering a student's scholarship to be used at a German university. The Hitler lieutenant made a similar offer two years later, only to be repulsed again. By this time Harvard opinion was solidly behind President Conant...

Author: By Martin J. Brookhuyson, | Title: 'Outside World' Crises, Changes At College Trouble Class of 1936 | 6/12/1961 | See Source »

With or without Alabama's consent, Attorney General Kennedy had all the authority he needed to send FBI agents, marshals, or even Army troops to the troubled state. That authority rested in Section 333 of the Armed Forces Code-which derived from an 1871 Insurrection Act that was designed as a legal antidote against Ku Klux Klan rampaging. Section 333 authorizes the President to use "any means" to suppress "insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination or conspiracy" if state officials are unable or unwilling to offer citizens the protection of the law. The section has been used only three times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THREE QUESTIONS OF LAW | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

...chances of saving Laos from Communism at "one in a thousand," the moody prince then departed for a rest on the Riviera. Most of the other big names, including Dean Rusk and Andrei Gromyko, had got away even earlier, leaving the podium to Red China's Foreign Minister, Marshal Chen Yi. He warned that the agreed goal of Laotian neutrality applied only to "international" matters-Laos could not join military alliances, but within the country, Communist forces should be perfectly free to harass any government or take it over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geneva: Stalemate | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

Politically and economically, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito likes to preserve his neutrality by playing East against West. But culturally, Yugoslavia has made her choice clear: freedom. The bold, abstract expressionism of Yugoslav painters has put them in the van of the avantgarde. Last week, during a week-long festival of international contemporary music in Zagreb, Yugoslav composers proved that they were as ready to accept far-out modernism as were their comrades at the easel. Sell-out audiences loudly approved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Revolution in Zagreb | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

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