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...campus of Brazil's Rural University last week, the atmosphere was anything but collegiate. In black cassocks and brown robes, 41 priests and monks said their prayers at improvised altars in the dormitory halls, then went on to lectures and field demonstrations on crop rotation, irrigation and rural sanitation. What they learned in their month's stay would be passed along with their sermons and ministrations at outposts in 16 Brazilian states. The course was part of the university's effort to teach Brazil its biggest lesson: how to grow its own food...
Down in the Valley, a one-act "folk opera" by Composer Kurt Weill and Librettist Arnold Sundgaard, had become a sensational hit on the campus theater circuit all over the U.S. Written a year ago, it had already had some 80 separate productions. Last week its latest one was the biggest hit in the three-year history of Manhattan's zestful Lemonade Opera company...
Married. Robert Richard Chappuis, 26, All America (Michigan '47) passing ace, now under contract to the Chicago Hornets; and Ann Gestie, 21, his campus sweetheart; in Fargo...
Yale's President Charles Seymour agreed. He wanted no Communists on Yale's campus, but, said he, "we shall permit no hysterical witch hunt. We shall not impose an oath of loyalty upon our faculty." Yale, he said, had abandoned trying to "enforce conformity by oath over 125 years ago." Despite this "lack of control," added Seymour, "we have done pretty well in service to 'church and civil state...
...campus of Massachusetts' Wellesley College last week, 3,000,000 Christians were joined in a new world community. The decision was made by a thousand hot, hardworking delegates and visitors to the sixth International Council of Congregational Churches, the first gathering of worldwide Congregationalism in 19 years. The new community, called the International Congregational Council, will represent the denomination in 37 countries...