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South Africa was divided between festival and fear. The festival, opened last week by Prime Minister Daniel Malan's government, celebrated the 300th anniversary of the landing at Cape Town from the Dutch ship Goede Hoop of South Africa's first white settlers. They entered a vast, fertile country, empty except for a handful of aborigines. But as their ox-wagons rolled north, they collided with the southward-marching legions of the black Bantu tribes. The blacks now outnumber the whites 8,000,000 to 2,500,000. From that fact grows South Africa's fear...
...Harvard was founded ... by a group of vigorous dissenters from the Church of England. Before a generation had passed there was dissent from the first dissent. By the turn of the eighteenth century the orthodoxy of Harvard was considered highly questionable ... by the time we celebrated our 300th anniversary it was widely accepted that a vast number of colleges and universities in America, whatever their denominational, origins, were ... secular institutions. How could it be otherwise in a nation where religious toleration was a necessary condition of survival...
...University handed out 2,961 regular degrees at its 300th Commencement this June 21 including 1,003 for the College, 526 for the Business School, 495 for the Law School, and 145 for the Medical School. One hundred and ninety-eight men received doctor of philosophy degrees...
...University handed out 2,961 regular degrees at its 300th Commencement this June 21 including 1,003 for the College, 526 for the Business School, 495 for the Law School, and 145 for the Medical School. One hundred and ninety-eight men received doctor of philosophy degrees...
...University will award 3,000 degrees Thursday, June 21, when it will hold its 300th Commencement. More than 5,000 alumni are expected to join College and Graduate students in the five-day festivities, according to the schedule released yesterday...