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Dean Acheson, Archibald MacLeish and Joseph N. Welch, wrote and spoke widely on civil rights but disliked being tagged a "fiery liberal," called himself a conservative "with an old-fashioned concern about the Bill of Rights...
Chafee served on many committees investigating civil rights, including the vice-chairmanship from 1934-1947 of the Commission on Freedom of the Press. This group included Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, emeritus, Reinhold Neibuhr and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory...
Students who became aware of this discrepancy immediately started circulating wild tales, even one to the effect that some clever fellow had hoodwinked the Harvard proctors by forging a "personal" note from Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and lecturer in the course...
...admissions of a famous Ivy League university likes to give the old grads a jolt. "If you were to apply for your alma mater today," he is quoted as saying, "only 20% of you would get it." In that particular ploy, the dean is not alone. Says Acting President Archibald Macintosh of Haverford College : "I have occasionally talked to alumni about getting into Haverford today and have told them, 'I sometimes doubt if I would have admitted myself...
APRIL. A Radcliffe girl is arrested for holding up the bank previously looted by an MIT student. She will explain, "I lust for experience" and then hang bullfight posters in her cell. Archibald MacLeish will volunteer his services to the football team claiming that "poetry should be brought to motion." Elsie buys out the Business School...