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Lowell's tennis squad, which tied Kirkland's 5-1 season record but beat the Deacons Friday in the final House match of the season, topped Yale's Davenport 4 to 3 in smooth style in the only House-College match played in Cambridge over the weekend...
...DIGNITY OF MAN (338 pp.)-Russell Davenport-Harper...
...close of World War II, when the victorious armies of West and East met and momentarily fraternized, a U.S. correspondent asked a Russian officer over lunch what he thought the war was all about. Replied the Russian: "Svoboda [Freedom]!" The correspondent never forgot that answer. Journalist Russell Davenport, who in 1940 had quit his job as FORTUNE'S managing editor to direct Wendell Willkie's presidential campaign, was also a poet (My Country) and philosopher. To his brooding, deep-thrusting mind, the exchange with the Red army man summarized "the predicament of the free world." It drove...
...Overwhelming Task. There are vital differences between Davenport and others who have had similar insights. Dissatisfaction with military and economic weapons does not lead him to conclude that such weapons should be abandoned: "Without them the entire free world would be exposed." Distrust of the faith in progress does not lead him to assert that it should be discarded, for it has "become vital to the health-indeed to the survival-of modern civilization . . . In terms of human destiny we are committed to the optimistic tradition." It is America's special task-"of truly overwhelming proportions"-to find...
Archibald MacLeish '19, acting master of Eliot House and a Fellow of Davenport College at Yale, also attacked the IBM method, which was instituted where 80 percent of the freshman class applied to two of the colleges...