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...Jorge Costa Neves, of the University of Brazil. So stimulating were his courses in the Portuguese language and Brazilian civilization that Vassar's president, tart Sarah Blanding, seldom missed a lecture herself. Now back in Rio for a year before returning to Vassar, able Jorge Costa loves to expound on how the U.S. looks to a Brazilian...
...donned her bulky hearing aid, adjusted her glasses and began her last summer of teaching at U.C.L.A. Now 69, she has retired as professor of psychology but will stay on at the clinic school, using her new leisure to gather up the research strewn about her office, and to expound her theories of education. She believes, among other things, that "there are too many women teachers. They are ruining our educational system...
...House. Pendle Hill is also an active publishing enterprise. This venture, now in general charge of Clement Alexandre, an able and articulate young English non-Quaker, has broken even with a list of some 30 pamphlets and half a dozen books. Most of them are written by Friends, and expound Quakerly thought on current economic and social problems, and Quaker religious practices and history. Pendle Hill is thus the Society's chief U.S. publishing center...
...Alumni Exercises at 2 o'clock, George Rublee '90, President of the Alumni Association, will preside, and President Conant, Governor Bradford, and the honorary degree winners will give addresses. Last year's Exercises heard Secretary Marshall first expound his world-famous Plan for European recovery...
...Eisler but doubts the wisdom of their action. I share their natural indignation at the misuse of the words "liberal" and "civil rights," as I share their revulsion towards those groups who try to cloak an anti-preparedness campaign under the attractive phrase, "Save the Peace," and then expound the party line on Palestine and Mr. Wallace's candidacy. I admit that to take an attitude of amused contempt is a temptation. However, it seems to me that the issues at stake call for a more intelligent and thoughtful approach than cat-calls and vaudeville and ill-considered cries...