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...some 20,000 or 52% were female. In the summer sessions was even a greater proportion of women: 9,600 out of a total 13,887. Said Registrar Grant: "Women are simply going more and more into the professions." Hoped he: examination of Columbia's enrolment figures would enlighten those who wondered why Columbia did not produce "for example, a success ful football team." (Columbia College, whence the team came, had but 1,818 stu dents.) A man who has been wondering just what Columbia is producing is Dr. Abra ham Flexner, investigator since...
...concerning Walter Wellman which appeared in the Detroit Free Press of Oct. 13, particularly interested me as I have in preparation a History of the Wellman family in America. ... I would be greatly interested whether TIME, which in the adagial sense, like the tide, "waits for no man" can enlighten the Free Press as well as myself as to the present whereabouts and condition of this well-known explorer & writer of only two decades ago. Can it be that through ill-fortune he has passed into obscurity at 72 (born Nov. 3, 1858)? Might I suggest that if such...
...Editor's Note: After reading the above commentaries from the Yale News, one instinctively feels that something ought to be said in, reply, if only from an altruistic desire to enlighten the New Haven editors and put them on their guard. But the case looks very sad, and it is extremely doubtful if such an attempt will meet with any success...
Whatever the actual situation in Russia may be, it is obvious that prejudice or even the appearance of prejudice will enlighten no one. Knowledge of Russia must come from disinterested observers who have lived in Russia. The fact that out of nine men chosen to speak on the Soviet eight should have been more than academically interested is distinctly unfortunate for the Williamstown Institute of Politics. The best education is nourished in liberalism. Any school for the improvement of political thought especially in international politics, must avoid even the appearance of prejudice or lose its influence...
Sacre. The curtain went up on some 40 Russian peasants, all adolescent youths and girls, dancing in a turbid wheel-like formation to woodwind music which was restive, foreboding. A haggish old woman interrupts, one who knows the secrets of Nature, of Spring. The adolescents whom she comes to enlighten are still of undetermined sex. They mix happily, spontaneously, but Spring is the season for fertility, for recreation. The groups seperate, quarrel, play self-consciously for the first time. A sage appears, the eldest the clan. Face down he asks the bless of the earth and new energy comes seizes...