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Three terms of teaching at the Harvard summer school taught French Author-Lecturer Pierre Emmanuel enough about American students to give him serious misgivings. Compared to his former lycee pupils in France, he reports in the Atlantic Monthly, the average U.S. college student-in spite of his spontaneity and curiosity-has an intellectual background that is often chaotic, usually confused, and generally notable for its "absence of basic information...
Love at First Sight. It is true, says Emmanuel, that the American often presents a kind of freshness that the European student lacks, but "too many American students neglect the compass which history gives them for the sake of a personal approach to the classics . . . How quickly the American student makes friends with a book or a man and treats them as if they were his contemporaries! He hardly knows the background from which they arise. They surge out of his own mental world, haunt him, call forth in him an instantaneous and, frequently, a passionate reaction. A fortnight later...
John C. Culver '54 of Cedar Rapids, Ia., and Winthrop House recived the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Studentship for study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England. The holder of this award, which is made annually by the Associated Harvard Clubs, will occupy the rooms at Emmanuel College in which John Harvard lived when he was a student there in the 17th century...
Prince Henry of Hesse, 26, grandson of the late King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, speaks with the elegant inflection of European royalty in 31 nostalgically surrealist paintings on exhibit in the Carstairs Gallery. His theme: memories of his own fairy-tale childhood spent among crowned and sceptered relatives in castles, palaces and splendiferous watering places (he is also a great-grandnephew of the late Kaiser Wilhelm, a cousin of Britain's Queen Elizabeth...
...chorus will sing Christmas carols from different lands, and Handel's "Messiah." "Vent Emmanuel" and "Adeste Fideles" with be sung by the Congregation...