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ALEXANDER HEARD, U.S. educator (chancellor, Vanderbilt University): No concept of leadership is complete without the element of zeal and fervor, an almost spiritual element. Martin Luther King had it. Adolf Hitler had it, so did Gandhi and Nehru. The Old Testament prophets had it. It's commitment, it's a kind of self-confidence which can be egotistic and arrogant. But a degree of it has to be there. The leader must have a belief in what he is doing, almost a singlemindedness...
Died. John Crowe Ransom, 86, poet, critic and longtime editor of the Kenyan Review; in Gambier, Ohio. Widely acclaimed for his poems, which were distinguished by compressed emotion expressed in courtly rhetoric, Ransom was also an influential teacher. As an instructor at Vanderbilt University in the 1920s, the Tennessee-born Rhodes scholar shepherded the Fugitives, a flock of young Southern poets (including Allen Tate and Robert Perm Warren) who celebrated the virtues of Southern agrarianism in defiance of the machine age. In 1937 Ransom moved to Kenyon College, where he attracted such poets as Randall Jarrell and Robert Lowell...
...Evans points out, "Harvard has never produced 'ethnic' leaders for any group: more Catholic-Irish leaders come from Boston College, Holy Cross, St. John's and Notre Dame than from Harvard, although there have long been Catholics at Harvard. Far more Southern white leaders come from Alabama, Texas, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Virginia, and William and Mary than from Harvard. Is it any wonder then that Morehouse, Howard and other black colleges have produced more black leaders than Harvard...
Steven L. Kest '74 said Princeton, Cornell, and Vanderbilt Universities and the Universities of Wisconsin and North Carolina have promised to look into the plant's environmental impact
Many Americans are falling back on a devil theory of sorts, or at least some sinister force, to explain the nation's problems, or simply personalizing problems with a vengeance. Vanderbilt Chancellor Alexander Heard notes: "Devils are being found in the oil companies, the presidency and others to whom blame can be assigned...