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Radcliffe has received $654,000 in unrestricted funds from the residue of the estate of Edmond Dana Barbour (the late Boston merchant and philanthropist), President Wilbur K. Jordan announced yesterday...
Radcliffe's gifts from the Barbour estate now total $1,364,000, since it received a bequest of $711,000 when Barbour died in 1925. His daughter, Mrs. Mary Barbour Blair, life tenant for the estate, died in April...
Professor Ian G. Barbour writes about the group in the Christian Century, "Is the University today really neutral, or open it tend to have an implied Weltan schauung? Why is it that the mention of a Christian view is often criticized whereas a logical positivist may be dogmatic and even militant in the expression of his faith? Partly because many teachers may not realize that they have presuppositions. . . Should we not encourage rather than discourage the discussion of convictions on the ultimate issues involved...
...took over in '35, the Syndics resigned as customary, to allow the new director free rain in selecting his board. Only one, Pain Joseph Sachs, was asked back. The new men, while justly famous in their fields, represented a new spirit in the University thinking about the Press. Thomas Barbour, director of the Harvard Museum, was chosen, as was Biology professor Baird Hastings and Economist Edward Mason. Malone, himself, was no professional publisher, but a sometime historian...
...signed her on. She bent an ear to his swinging band every night for two years, learned things about rhythm that put her in solidly with the hepcats, made her first hit records (Why Don't You Do Right?, Let's Do It). She married Guitarist Dave Barbour, wrote a nonsense bestseller, Maňana, with him before they split up a year...