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Stanford University last week abolished its nine sororities.* They had long been a cause of friction, intensified after 1934 when the ceiling of 500 was taken off the number of Stanford coeds and the sororities took only 250 in all. Said Stanford President Donald Bertrand Tresidder: "We, above all, are Stanford women...
Manhattan Publisher William Warder Norton rarely wears a hat, rarely publishes fiction. He wants books which will win scholarly praise. In Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the Million he had a best-seller (200,000 copies) which won the praise of such mathematicians as Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell. Last fortnight he published a Hogben-edited book which is equally scholarly and fit for laymen. It seeks to explain the evolution, anatomy, functioning, diseases and future of language...
UNRRA looked to New York's brass-lunged Ham Fish like a "gigantic international WPA." Illinois's Jessie Sumner had figured out that the whole thing was a scheme to "make Stalin dictator of Europe." California's Bertrand W. Gearhart cried that it was unconstitutional. For these and other objections, Republican members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee were ready with patient, sense-making answers...
...most distinguished rebels of his generation finally had a job last week that suited him. It was high time. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 71, by primogeniture third Earl Russell and Viscount Amberley, in his own right a world-famed mathematician and philosopher, accepted a Cambridge fellowship. It was offered him by his famed alma mater, Trinity College, which in 1916 dismissed him for a pacifism he no longer holds...
...Bertrand Russell, who looks like a twinkling Mad Hatter and talks like a twinkling Alice, has found the U.S. a through-the-looking-glass wonderland. Some reasons...