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Confidence & Growth. In 1938 Charlie Merrill went back to the brokerage business. Combining first with Pierce, later with Brokers Charles Erasmus Fenner and Alpheus Crosby Beane, he set out to help rebuild U.S. confidence in stocks by offering investors the most conservative advice, cutting out service fees. In 1949 alone, Merrill Lynch's brokers gave lectures to 30,000 women in 65 cities, spent some $400,000 on advertising...
...Tennyson manuscripts are part of a wide variety of other works in English and American literature and history recently acquired by the Houghton Library, Jackson said. Earlier this week, the library announced the acquisition of rare editions of Bacon, Locke, Hobbes, Erasmus, Dante, and other early writers...
Rare editions of such writers as Dante, John Locke, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes and Erasmus have been added to the Houghton Library's collection of valuable books and manuscripts...
...while pupil insolence has hit a record high. Not only must the teacher cope with proven delinquents because there are not facilities enough to handle them; he must also take in a host of virtual nonreaders from the lower schools. Said Principal John McNeill of Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School: "We are shocked and depressed by the general failure of the authorities to understand the sorry deterioration in our high schools. The resentment of teachers who feel that no one at headquarters understands their problems or considers their plight seriously has changed the atmosphere of every high school...
Among the eminent men on the Lawrence faculty are Herbert Spiegelberg of the philosophy department, recently awarded a Guggenheim Grant to study phenomenology in Germany; Warren Beck, the novelist; Craig Thompson, an Erasmus scholar; and William F. Rancy in history. In the last three years, eight faculty members have applied for Ford Fellowships for study abroad and all eight have been accepted. Professors credit much of this record to Pusey; not only does he pick superior men, but he encourages the worthy professors to compete for the awards. Many college presidents hesitate to allow their best men the year...