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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barry is a product of what was called the Yale Literary Renaissance, a microscopic affair which began vigorously with Stephen Vincent Benet, John Farrar, Thornton Wilder et al. but was soon washed from the campus in an ocean of afternoon tea. The War took Philip Barry to the U. S. Embassy at London because weak eyes kept him out of military service. The desire to write plays took him back to the 47 Workshop. The need to make a living temporarily shunted him into the advertising business (McCann-Erickson, Inc.). When he heard that The Youngest, his first professionally produced...
Some of the same sort of thing has been on this campus. Years ago, there were student members on the council in charge of discipline, but it was found that these members were incapable of using good judgment. They were inclined to be harsher than the faculty members, or else they wanted to be lenient with their own friends...
...student college organization of this sort would end the election of class officers by a few hundred voters. Students would be able to elect their officers within their own college, and the campus wide domination by single parties would be ended. Not only would students have a deeper interest in their officers, but they would be able to establish closer scholarship contacts with their colleges. Men in charge of the University class affairs would be chosen from every part of the student body. Independents and fraternity men would see all political party lines and party centralization wiped...
...faculty or student councils, if the group of student representives of publications at the annual congress of the National Student Federation of America, held in Toronto last week, gives a fair picture of the situation. Only twenty-one of the fifty-six colleges represented in the group had campus papers which were absolutely free of control, according to the report received here. In the other thirty-five a faculty ban prohibits editorial criticism of the faculty or administration...
Enthusiastic Rutgers University students went to old Queen's Hall one day last week, tolled the college bell whose clapper they have so often stolen. They ran their venerated "Flag of 1766" up the campus flagpole. Rutgers had a new president, after having had only an acting president since John Martin Thomas decided to go into life insurance (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930). Last week Acting President Philip Milledoler Brett signalized the end of his term by telephoning Rutgers new president, just elected: Robert Clarkson ("Bob") Clothier...