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...conscientious, I. S. S. was disturbed by the activities of the American Youth Congress, by an increasing tendency of grownups to get fed up with Youth. Thereupon I. S. S.'s advisers-among them: Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Dwight Morrow, Congressional Librarian Archibald MacLeish, Smith's President-emeritus William A. Neilson, Williams' Professor Max Lerner-decided that the organization should have as its main function teaching youth "to think historically and to act with restraint." Said they: "Organized 'action groups' . . . have been able to secure much greater influence than their relatively small numbers deserve...
While sacrificing Harvard's most sacred buildings to the barbarous freshmen was viewed with consternation by many old-timers, the change has not yet destroyed the buildings and Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric emeritus, beloved for many years as "Copey" and known as a fixture in Hollis Hall, has observed that the Freshmen are quite as gentlemanly as the Seniors...
Died. Franklin Henry Hooper, 78, editor emeritus of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; of injuries when he was hit by a truck; in Saranac Lake, N. Y. After supervising five Encyclopaedia editions as managing or U. S. editor, he became editor-in-chief in 1932, retired two years ago. A dauntless pedestrian, Editor Hooper persistently flouted traffic signals, replied to friends' pleas for caution: "We are all going to die some...
Died. John Eliot Wolff, 82, professor emeritus of geology at Harvard University; of thirst and exhaustion; in the Mojave Desert, California. Motoring across the desert (where the heat often reaches 120°) for a one-day camping trip, Geologist Wolff apparently got stuck in the sand. While awaiting death or rescue, Professor Wolff wrote a codicil to his will, leaving a bequest to his gardener...
Died. Dr. Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge, 73, professor emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University, longtime (1912-29) Dean of the Graduate Faculties; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Dr. Woodbridge believed U. S. education produced too many "excited individuals," too few "dispassionate scholars...