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Since the day he was sworn in, Brownell has been working seven days and seven evenings a week and holding daily luncheon conferences with his staff. On a recent weekend, his homework was studying the case of Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, to determine whether he should recommend, clemency or reject their plea. The new man at Justice takes his job very seriously. Said he: "I feel strongly that the Department of Justice is a keystone of the Republic. If it fails, all that our youth has fought to preserve crumbles...
More specifically, he should not recommend slipping another clergyman into the post of PBH Secretary. For the Secretary bears the brunt of contact with both students seeking a non-denominational program and multi-religious community groups asking PBH's services. And if the Professor has a bit of difficuty shucking his sectarianism, a young and relatively inexperienced Secretary will find it almost impossible. Unless he is a layman, the PBH hierarchy will be steeped in the same aura of cloth and collars as Dwight Hall at Yale, where Catholic and Jewish participation is minimized and social service work does...
...Parts Grease. Last week in his "Strictly Personal" column, syndicated in 16 papers around the U.S., Harris walloped writers of swashbuckling historical novels; rose to the defense of unstuffy clergymen ("Dull[ness] and pompous[ness] . . . has nothing to recommend it, neither piety nor good sense"); punctured the idea that Europeans are more "romantic" than Americans; criticized a congressional investigation of obscene books ("There is not, and has never been, any real evidence that literature, even of the lowest order, has ever 'corrupted' morals") ; and tossed off a few of his typically irreverent "Purely Personal Prejudices" ("Whenever I meet...
Adele Gilmore '53, who suggested a reevaluation of the Council executive board, will recommend a slightly larger board with limited power. She will suggest Council officers, who form the executive board, should have the power to select topics for general Council discussion, not to make judgements on cases...
Provost Buck, who will make the final decision on whether to recommend the tuition jump must decide the effect an increase will have on the make-up of the student body. The Provost, in the event he decides the increase is absolutely essential will probably include recommendations for providing increased scholarships, loans, and jobs for needy students...