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...Barbara Munro Schurman, 65, relict of the late Jacob Gould Schurman, onetime (1892-1920) president of Cornell University, onetime (1925-29) Ambassador to Germany; of pneumonia; in Bedford...
Last week the President of the U. S. appointed a Minister to Haiti. He is Dana Gardner Munro, 38, studious son of that scholarly father, Princeton's Professor of Medieval History, Dr. Dana Carleton Munro. Young Minister Munro is an engaging, gentle diplomat, chief of the Department of State's Division of Latin-American Affairs, author of an authoritative book on Central America...
That Minister Munro ought to get on well with his easy-going tropical hosts is suggested by a story told on him in Washington. Invited to dinner at the White House, he and Mrs. Munro arrived 30 min. late, were advised by Chief Usher Ike Hoover to dine elsewhere. On another occasion, dilatory Dana Munro arrived late with a speech-of-state which he had prepared for the President to deliver...
...Confirmed the nomination of Dana Gardner Munro to be Minister to Haiti...
...Princetonian cannot from the very nature of the case take a stand on this problem. It is too personal; it is something which every man must decide for himself. But we violate no trust, we betray no confidence, when we point out that according to Professors Dana G. Munro's and Raymond Sontag's "Middle Ages" university students in that period were required to sign a pledge that in case they failed a course they would not "use a dagger or knife on their examiner...