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Candidates: Dewey George Archambault, Jr., Blair Morton Boyd, Jr., John Bertrand Cadigan, Jr., John Edwin Carlson, Jr., Thomas Henry Collins, Walter Coulson, Frederick Deane, Jr., John Morton Dunn, Weston Joseph Durant, Robert Scarborough Erakine, Jr., Allan Sulyard Garon, Charles Nelson Gregg, Jr., Peter Green Harwood, Harry, Peter Haveles...
...hungrier in 1948 than it was in 1947. The crisis will come next April or May. No one need be surprised at news of famine, near-famine, malnutrition and rations cuts; there has been grim and ample warning. The latest prophecy came last week from. Director General Sir John Boyd Orr of the Food and Agriculture Organization who warned, in a year's-end report to the United Nations, that there will continue to be "a food shortage of world magnitude. During the coming year, many in Europe and Asia will die from the direct or indirect effects...
...named yesterday are: Malcolm H. Allen, Jr., Alan Balsam, George I. Bell, Robert K. Bingham, Blair M. Boyd, Jr., John B. Cadigan, Jr., Levin H. Campbell III, John E. Carlson, Jr., Robert B. Clark, Robert C. Cobb, Jr., Walter Coulson, Frederick Deane, Jr., Robert Dudley...
...platform. They had come to deliver eulogies. One was slow-spoken 88-year-old Pragmatist John Dewey. The other was white-haired William H. Kilpatrick, 76, Columbia's fiery ex-professor of education. Both, in their time, had been rebels. They had come to honor a third. Boyd H. Bode (rhymes with soda) had walked in their steps in progressive education, but he was no meek disciple. "Whatever of mine goes through Bode," said John Dewey, "comes out different...
...stern Calvinist preacher, Boyd Bode was brought up to be "a good 16th Century Calvinist." At school in Illinois, he dutifully mastered his catechism, the doctrines of predestination and a high tariff. At home one day, young Bode remarked that something might be said for Evolution. His father rushed out of the house, hitched up his horses, and drove all day, praying for his son's soul. "For me," said Bode, "it was a period of unmitigated suffering...