Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Idea? In midweek the 90-man National Commission for UNESCO met to discuss the recommendations of the 500 organizations-and pass its own recommendations up the line. This led to more concrete suggestions, if not more outright clarification. Present were such prominent folk as: Commission Chairman Milton Eisenhower, president of Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science and a younger, scholarly edition of General Ike; Assistant Secretary of State William Benton and his oldtime advertising partner, Chester Bowles; Donald M. Nelson (now of Hollywood), and Texas' witty historian Frank Dobie...
Should the press, as the commission suggested, "engage in vigorous mutual criticism?" No, answered Columnist Walter Lippmann, admitting to membership in the country-club school of newspapering, in which club members do not discuss each other aloud. Wrote Lippmann: "For there is a fellowship among newspapermen as there is in other crafts and professions. They have to see each other . . . work together. ... I may say that I have tried [such criticism] and have had it tried on me, and my conclusion is that the hard feelings it causes are out of all proportion to the public benefits it causes...
Thursday will see Assistant Professor James J. Lingane talk on the Chemistry Department at 7:15 o'clock and Professor David E. Owen discuss the History Department of 8:15 o'clock...
Freshmen, who must choose their field of concentration within the next few weeks, will get an opportunity to hear men from the various departments discuss their fields in a series of talks in the Union Common Room, it was announced last night...
Professor Talcott Parsons will discuss the Social Relations Department Wednesday at 7:15 o'clock; while Professor Henry A. Frost will explain the workings of the Department of Architectural Sciences at 8:15 o'clock the same evening...