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...putting books in to living quarters, there are drawbacks to the suggested Radcliffe's greatest natural and will remain Harvard, and Harvard is a mile down from the Quad. For the 'Cliffie, the ideal study center a co-educational meeting place the Widener reading room. Only the most ardent feminists really want an answer to Lamont, and only the most unrealistic co-educationists believe that a resplendent new building Quad will prove as or more than one located a little nearer to the Square...
Died. Major General Ralph Emerson Truman. 81, U.S.N.G. (ret.), testy first cousin of Harry, a onetime Spanish-American War corporal and World War I captain who, as an ardent week-end warrior, never forgave the Regular Army for relieving his command of the 35th Division, a Missouri-Kansas National Guard outfit he helped form, on the eve of World Wrar II; of a heart attack; in Kansas City...
...suburbs as in city, storefront congregations tend to be small in size, distrustful of "worldliness" and "heresies" in mainstream Protestantism, ardent in their faith, and embellished with such florid names as Faith and Miracle Tabernacle or Church of the Living God. Few of them have fulltime ministers. Church services emphasize oldtime hymns and sermons that pound home a basic Gospel message of Christ's saving grace. There is little or no liturgy. "We feel that all this rising and reading confuses the issue,'' says Pastor Delamarian. "Our message is simple: Have you been saved...
...Vassar incident seemed to soften the views of some of Radcliffe's anti-sex league. One ardent opponent of the proposed change in sign-out rules said, "I don't think the Administration should go quite that far...You shouldn't have to pass a virginity test before you enter or leave college...
...virtues are exactly those that Alfred Kazin lacks. Jarrell understands that what is serious need not be solemn. The scales of justice are part of his equipment, of course, but they are a lighter model than the vast, slow-swinging mechanism that burdens Kazin. After following Jarrell's ardent and scholarly puffs for the short stories of Kipling or the poems of Eleanor Taylor, the reader feels that life will not be supportable without these stories or these poems. Kazin's approval of a writer, however well thought out, inspires the sort of emotion that one feels...