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...four years the Hearst New York Journal & American had screamed that the city's schools and colleges were honeycombed with Reds. Bertrand Russell's appointment last spring to teach at City College (later overruled by the courts) was the last straw. Taxpayers, American Legionnaires and Tammanyites, who have no love either for Communism or the city's anti-Tammany school and college boards, got the Legislature to vote a sweeping inquiry into the State's educational system, including "subversive" activities in New York City...
...that meeting, we feel that Professor Morison's excellent counsel should be directed not only to the students but also to those members of the faculty who, in the desire to arouse emotion and forestall critical discussion, threaten to override the very principle which it is their duty to teach. Robert G. Davis, Briggs-Copeland Instructor in English Philip C. Horton, Instructor in English...
Wherever Christianity has spread since the days of Jesus, it has raised the status of woman in civil life, it has kept her in her ecclesiastical place. Even professional women are rarely allowed to do more than sew, serve suppers and teach Sunday school. Wrote one Disciple: "The world has claimed the brains of our brilliant women. The church was too slow...
...sculptor. Following year Chicago's Architects Holabird & Root brought him to the U. S. to do a fountain for their Michigan Square Building in Chicago. Then Detroit's Philanthropist George Booth, who was trying to found an ideal art colony at nearby Cranbrook, invited Milles to teach sculpture there. Since then Milles has lived at Cranbrook, dividing the honors of its famous Art Academy with Scandinavian Modern Architect Eliel Saarinen. Sculptor Milles teaches, but goes on hewing and casting too. Says he, of his bold, agonized, monumental figures: "You see their faces are ugly. That is why they...
Yale started lightweight football ten years ago, as a sort of Bill of Rights for students who were too light for the varsity. They got some hand-me-down uniforms that had shrunk in cleaning, got Medical Student Herb Miller (who had just hung up his cleats) to teach them some varsity tricks, got Choate, Roxbury and other nearby prep schools to play against them. Then Princeton organized a 150-lb. team. Rutgers, Penn, Lafayette, Villanova followed. The six formed a league,* arranged a round-robin schedule. The late Foster Sanford, onetime Yale footballer and later Rutgers coach...