Word: boise
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Cora Du Bois, an anthropologist, will succeed the retiring Helen Maud Cam as Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor, the College and Radcliffe announced yesterday.
Miss Du Bois was selected for the professorship, which is open to women scholars in any field of study, on the basis of a special committee's survey of the outstanding women of the scholarly world.
An authority on cross-cultural studies in personality, Miss Du Bois is known especially for her studies of California Indians and of Indonesian and South Asian peoples. She is the author of two books in her field.
The ingredients of Almanac are the revue staples--satiric sketches, comic monologues, and production numbers. Even more stubbornly than the usual revue, however, the show makes no attempt to tie them with a cohesive thread. The only common elements of the scenes are the superb settings by Pene Du Bois...
Nor was Bentinck-Smith hesitant to include minority reports on Harvard life, like the reflections of John Reed '10, or the sensitive personal account of historical isolation of one of the first Negroes at Harvard, W. E. B. Du Bois '90. There does seem, however, to be need of an...