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Cora Du Bois, holder of the Zemurray-Stone-Radcliffe Professorship for distinguished women scholars, is retiring this summer from the Harvard Faculty, becoming Professor Emeritus.
Before she joined the Harvard Faculty, Miss Du Bois was director of research for the Institute of International Education. For services in the Office of Strategic Services in Washington and Ceylon during World War II, she received the Army's Exceptional Civilian Service Award.
She will continue her study of the confrontation of modern and traditional values in the Indian city of Bhubaneswar. Miss Du Bois will also retain her appointment as Curator of South Asian Ethnology in the Peabody Museum.
During the 1920s, when many welfare agencies refused to care for Negroes, Harlem's struggling middle classes looked after their own sick, poor and aged. They also sponsored a "Black Renaissance," led by W.E.B. Du Bois and his magazine, Crisis.
Miss due Bois must retire at the end of this academic year because she will have reached the age of 66 before June.