Word: professors
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Virginia Hoagland. To attract their wives as well as the younger instructors themselves, the women's suite on the second floor was refurbished. It took very little encouragement for this to become the bridge, mah jong, and gossip center of Cambridge. In return the coeds each week give some professor a chance to lecture uninterruptedly not only his own missus but his colleagues' wives as well...
...major event of the day will be the symposium on "The Relation of the United States to World Affairs," in the New Lecture Hall at 2:30 o'clock. Broadcast over a national hookup, the symposium will include speeches by Samuel H. Cross '12, professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, William Y. Eliot, professor of Government, and Bruce C. Hopper '18, associate professor of Government. Dr. Roger I. Lee '02, member of the Harvard Corporation, will preside at the meeting...
Nazi penetration of Latin America is a predictable certainty, according to Professor Leach. But another Harvard bigwig, Professor Alvin Hansen, is not so pessimistic. In an article in the October issue of Foreign Affairs the noted economist states that "an economic bloc consisting of the United States and all the countries in areas A and B"-that is, all Latin American nations except the five southernmost ones-"would have a solid foundation in the economic self-interest of all the countries involved. If it should be deemed desirable to include this entire area within in a single customs union...
...Professor Hansen is right and his conclusion is amply buttressed with statistics the Leach-Conant line is knocked into a cocked hat. There is no reason why South America must, for economic reasons, fall prey to the Nazis. As Hansen points out, "The Western Hemisphere contains within itself all the essential materials men need for enjoying a higher standard of living than any so far attained." Going to war now just to keep Hitler out of South America is from the standpoint of national defense totally unnecessary. There's more than one way to skin...
Devoted to the most recent publications of the Press, the first show case in Widener will contain the three volume work "Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art" by Miss Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs '00, professor of Fine Arts...