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...University heart specialists talked to nearly 1,000 Indians doctors last night--from an office on Beacon Street...
Harvard has 315 years of tradition behind it. It owes a double duty: to its students and to the nation as a whole. It must shine clearly as a beacon in the night in the free market-place of ideas...
...reckoned that the properties involved had been worth $41,900,000. Among the chief "cultural aggressors": the twelve Protestant "Christian Colleges," run by the United Board for Christian Colleges in China; the Peiping Union Medical College and Changsha's "Yale in China," which were beacon lights of modern medicine in China; and the Catholic schools and mission churches that have served 3,500,000 Chinese Catholics. U.S. religious bodies had supported and operated 504 hospitals, 905 dispensaries, 31 leprosariums, 40 nursing schools, 320 orphanages. Their mission schools had trained scores of thousands of Chinese, including many officials...
...hasn't made very much of his subject, Author Mergendahl deserves a mild cheer for having tried, at least, to write about his Dons and Shelleys, people who are at least as representative of current U.S. life as anybody else, and currently least represented in U.S. fiction. The Beacon Hill set has Marquand, the Chicago slums have Farrell, the Mississippi farmers have Faulkner and the Okies have, or used to have, Steinbeck. In faithful seriousness or satiric affection, lower-income suburbia deserves a look...
...Last week Grants's two long-distance lines buzzed with calls from all over the U.S. Most of its 17 bars all proudly displayed ore samples. Advertisements for mining machinery and Geiger counters poured in on Clyne A. Bailey, editor of the weekly Grants Beacon (circ...