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...little community, Kenyon staged a conference on "The Heritage of the English-Speaking Peoples and Their Responsibility." Long and lovingly planned by Kenyon's President Gordon Keith Chalmers, the conference attracted such varied bigwigs as Senator Robert A. Taft, British Socialist Harold Laski, Cambridge University's Denis Brogan, Poet Robert Frost...
This view also had its protagonists in the U.S., which, with Britain, will next week begin an investigation into the Palestine problem. To the U.S. went a word of warning this week from Denis W. Brogan, who likes interpreting Britons and Americans to each other. Investigation, said Brogan, is not government, and basically the Palestine problem is a problem of government, a responsibility the U.S. does not share...
Sponsored by the Morris Gray Poetry Fund, Miss Lousie Brogan will read her own poems, with commentary, in the Poetry Room of Widener Library next Wednesday at 4:30 o'clock...
Last week the New York Herald Tribune asked some handy historians what they were calling it. Said Englishman Denis W. Brogan, now lecturing at Yale: "Maybe after a time I shall call this the atomic war, or the world war, part two." But to him, World War I was no world war, since it had hardly involved Asia and the Pacific. Said Columbia University's Henry Steele Commager: "President Roosevelt tried to find a fancy name, but . . . these wars are too big for descriptive names...
According to Associate Principal Hugh Brogan, who made the survey, results were not all money in the pocket: they included sleepiness in class, sluggishness in football and dramatics, a general burning of the candle at both ends. But these high-school taxpayers were more independent and assertive than prewar classes, needed less discipline. Some of them, already dollarwise, flatly declined to report their incomes on their questionnaires. Wrote one: "None of your nose...