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Cosmopolitan does not entail forsaking one's "roots" or one's "poorer bretheren"--as Mr. Farley condescendingly refers to the economically deprived members of our race. On the contrary, the "cosmopolitan imperative," rather than being a call to assimilate, to deny our origins in the ruthless pursuit of personal advancement, is instead a plea to Black students to work within the social and political structures of this country to bring about improvement. Professor Kilson feels that Black students have the responsibility of alerting non-Blacks to a problem that is not only ours but theirs as well: poverty and discrimination...
...surly bunch of Harvard and Yale trackmen traveled to England to see if their Anglo-Saxon bretheren at Oxford and Cambridge could exert themselves beyond a dainty lift of a teacup. The Englishmen in fact, could. And since that time, they have won 11 of the 21 trans-A antic meets...
With a membership of 16, the Conservative League preserves the tradition of its departed bretheren, the New Conservative League and the Conservative Club. "Though still searching for an ideology," commented president Hastings Wyman '61, "our group would in general support right-to-work laws, and express serious reservations about the UN." Regarding Eisenhower as "too liberal," the League has dined with an associate of Gen. MacArthur, and hopes Bill Buckley of the National Review will speak to them this Spring...
...unto you, bretheren, that such men who are daunted by the blindness of lost souls, such men are hypocrites and Pharisees and sophisticates. They know not of the secret workings of Providence; they are men of little faith. If our forefathers had left freedom to the slave, would there ever have been the Great War? If the people of the West, like great stones, stand oblivious of the seed, we must hack at them until they crumble. The first apostles were never deterred by lack of interest; know, friends, the dramatic power of martyrdom at the hands of the savages...
...list of sects having but one member on the register of the Phillips Brooks House includes: Shintoism, Taoism. Cambelitism, Zharathustraism, Babaism, and Buddhism. Twenty-five Disciples of Christ, 12 United Bretheren, and 13 Mormons filled out the Phillips Brooks cards...
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