Word: barres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tyranny, life or death," Streit has gathered an impressive array of aides, for most of whom the new monthly is a labor of love. His contributing editors: Owen J. Roberts, former U.S. Supreme Court justice; Russell W. Davenport, onetime managing editor of FORTUNE and Willkie campaign coordinator; Stringfellow Barr, president of St. John's College; A. Powell Davies, clergyman-author (The Faith of an Unrepentant Liberal); and youthful Harris Wofford Jr., founder of Student Federalists (the junior branch of Federal Union). Sparkplug of the eight full-time staffers, all under 30, is energetic Managing Editor Helen B. Hamer, alumna...
...Wallace Woodworth '24, associate professor of Music, led the Glee Club through a Russian anthem by Chesnikov and selections from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Yeomen of the Guard" to conclude the program. Soloist was E. Barr Peterson '47, while a medley of, football songs served for an encore...
...Flight. In Missoula, Mont., Army prison officers got a War Department release for James Barr, were about to tell him of it, found he had escaped...
Liberated Teachers. Barr plans to borrow a few faculty members from St. John's, persuade some recent St. Johnnies to try their hand at teaching, and raid established schools to "liberate oppressed minorities" who believe in the St. John's way. A teaching task-force from "College X" will invade the nearest city, bring the great books to grownups who are too old or too busy to go to college...
...Colonist Barr thinks the time is ripe for a new school, both because of the "shocking" shortage and because "I'm getting old." (He is 49.) Will there be still more Barr-built colleges on the St. John's pattern? "I'd like to think this is not the last. But somebody else will have to start the next...