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That issue had almost been obscured amidst the mutual doubts and suspicions prevalent for a week before the meeting. Perhaps the most encouraging single aspect of Monday's conference was the sudden concord on that real issue the goal of the new committee: "to provide the College with a democratic and representative Student Council"--in President Campbell's words...
Three generations of western Iowa farmers learned reading, writing and arithmetic at Otter Township's one-room Concord School. Next month, when schools all over Iowa reopen, Concord (which had only four pupils last term) will be closed. So will 1,700 other small Iowa schools, wiped out since 1941-and few Iowans will be sorry...
...novel of his own, one of Matthews' novels moved a fellow critic to begin his review as follows: "Thomas Stanley Matthews, 30, has a chin that sticks out from under a nose, eye, and brow that might have belonged to St. Paul, patron saint of his preparatory school (Concord...
...Genius. Years later, when married, a father and famous as the author of The Scarlet Letter, he was still a recluse at heart. Young William Dean Howells went to call on him in Concord, found him "visibly shy to the point of discomfort." His Concord neighbor Bronson Alcott noted in his journal: "I get glimpses of Hawthorne as I walk up the sledpaths, he dodging about amongst the trees on his hilltop as if he feared his neighbor's eyes would catch him as he walked. A coy genius. . . . Nobody gets a chance to speak with him unless...
Formed after the Concord Conference of February 8 to 12, the Council, headed by Ruth Forguson, Wellesley '48, hopes to coordinate the numerous Boston college groups interested in the eventual establishment of a federal world government. Mark Van Doren, Pulitzer Prize winner will be its first forum speaker on "The First Step in World Government." The meeting, free to the Harvard and Radcliffe public, will begin at 8 o'clock...