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...fellowships are just one part of a larger, long-range program toward an expanded Latin American curriculum in the University. Funds from the Bliss Chair in History have been appropriated for four other research fellowships...
Their optimism is useful and their caution understandable, but it is a pity that their ambition is not more specifically directed. True, they have met with a huge number of difficulties. The retirement of the last Bliss Professor, Clarence Haring, ten years ago killed off formal interest in Latin America; the Bliss Committee whose job is to appoint a new Professor has been content to use the chair's funds for four "Fellows." Members of various Faculties who want to devise new course offerings, exchanges of men with universities in the hemisphere, and seminars and lectures, can only...
...third solution, probably the best one, is to appoint a man of great stature in the field, around whom a staff can be built--in short, to appoint a Bliss Professor. Admittedly he is not easy to find; very likely he must be lifted from a program elsewhere. But the University found Sir Hamilton Gibb for Middle Eastern Studies, offering no more than an excellent salary and the promise of a growing center to come. Latin America, so curiously neglected for many decades, deserves as much...
Across the U.S., big-city G.O.P. leaders have been stirred by the "Bliss Report." a detailed analysis written by Ohio State Chairman Ray C. Bliss of the party's failure to win elections because of poor precinct-by-precinct organization in the cities. He pointed out that Richard Nixon lost in 1960 because Republicans produced majorities in only 14 of the 41 largest cities; that these cities contain 28% of the U.S. population, and that in nearly half the states such metropolitan areas determine the outcome of statewide elections...
However, all cannot be happiness and bliss on the freshman sports scene, and, thus, the hockey team contributed one of its less spectacular seasons Posting a 7-7-3 record, the squad was the first to play only 500 hockey since...