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BOSTON. More than 8,000 high school students, both Negro and white, skipped classes after Negro leaders urged a student "stay out for freedom" protest against de facto segregation in Boston schools. Some 1,000 students turned up at churches and civic centers for one-day sessions in Negro history, basic government and civil rights...
...Class of 1913 discovered, this duty lay in many fields. In one direction went the public figures: A.A. Berle Jr., Kennedy's former Latin American adviser; George H. Earle III, Governor of Pennsylvania; Lincoln MacVeagh; Ambassador to Spain, Portugal, and Greece; and General Daniel Needham, a Boston civic leader. But in another went the scientists and humanists; Dr. Howard Root, the nation's leading authority on diabetes, Gerald L. Wendt, a noted science journalist, and Dows Dunham, curator emeritus of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...
Vellucci suggested that the Council invite Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the president for civic affairs, to appear next Monday before the City's committee on ordinances to discuss the historic-areas proposal. No action was taken on inviting Whitlock, however...
These articles, which recently won the Dana Reed Prize for undergraduate writing, first appeared in four separate issues of the Harvard Summer News last year. They were filed directly from Chestertown, Maryland, where Paul S. Cowan worked with a group called "Project Eastern Shore," sponsored by the Baltimore Civic Interest Group and the Northern Student Movement. Their purpose was to educate the Negro community in how to effect economic and political changes in their own interest. The series will be run in three installments, with the original date of each article appearing before the text...
...This indictment of the municipal mediocrity of the city that likes to call itself "the nation's front office" came last week from New York's 71-year-old City Club in announcing that it could find no worthy recipient for the Bard Awards for Excellence in Civic Architecture...