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When the civil rights groups demand that large investors like Harvard utilize their economic power they may in a wider sense be spiting themselves. Money is not intrinsically either representative or progressive. If capital is to be used consciously to promote social change, the powers which control capital cannot be left to determine the direction of that change. Presumably civil rights groups would rather have their fate decided in the voting booth than at the Stock Exchange. They should be happy that business has remained as open as it has to political leadership in racial matters. The impersonality of finance...
Judicial Boards are the only student faculty groups organized on a House basis. President Bunting yesterday lauded the progress of the Boards, saying they "will undoubtedly play an increasingly important part in recommending future legislation by the Radcliffe Government Association and in achieving wider community understanding of College policies...
...Lake Chapala have gained far more than the $200,000 their American neighbors spend there each month and the employment they give to maids and house-boys, gardeners and mechanics. The Americans have helped build a road and two schools. Their wants have nudged local markets into a wider range of merchandise...
...Central Problem. Robinson distinguishes the new hermeneutic (without the s) of the Marburgers and the traditional science of hermeneutics. This now somewhat neglected branch of theology outlined the basic principles of interpreting a text, in contrast to exegesis, which was practical application of these principles. Far wider in scope, the new hermeneutic deals with the key issue of how to retranslate the Christian message for man today, "the meaning of the text in the situation of modern religion," as Robinson explains it. So conceived, hermeneutic, which derives from Hermes, messenger of the gods, becomes the central problem of theology...
Cleared Smoke. The triangular division that Marxism is so prone to became evident even before Lenin's death in 1924. The right wing of the Central Committee was led by Bukharin, who wanted an even wider application of the NEP; the center was dourly controlled by Stalin; and the left followed Trotsky and the flamboyant Zinoviev. When the smoke cleared, Trotsky was again in exile, Zinoviev and Bukharin were dead, and Stalin was in power...