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...Clark come to be involved in the famous school desegregation case? Clark explains that NAACP lawyers, in planning strategy for a new attack on segregation in the schools in 1951 decided that the only chance they had to overthrow Plessy v. Ferguson was to introduce psychological data about the harmful effects of segregation. They approached Otto Kleinberg as the man to coordinate the evidence-researching project, and he steered them to a former pupil, Clark, who had just completed a study on the subject for the Mid-Century White House Conference on Youth and Education. "When they came...
Longtime farm-equipment makers, in cluding International Harvester, Allis Chalmers, Massey Ferguson and John Deere, have reached down into the new market. At the same time, such estab lished mower makers as Simplicity, Ja cobsen and Pennsylvania are stepping up to midget tractors. Large acreage and big income no longer seem to be requisites for sales: Harvester estimates that 70% of the buyers of its Cub Cadet own less than three acres and that half earn less than $10,000 a than year. The tractors are usually less than 4 ft. high, have 6-to 10-h.p. motors, move...
Mark H. Bramhall '65, William R. Ferguson '65, and Neva G. Rockefeller '66 will read from their stories, plays and poems tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Leverett House Old Library. The readings are part of the College-wide spring festival of the Arts, to be held...
...might ask, is the prize seeker like the wonk? Both, the answer is, are likely to be found in the library. The William Scott Ferguson Prize of books goes to the writer of the outstanding History essay written in sophomore tutorial. The Dante prize gives $100 to a graduate student writing on the life or work of Dante. But the rewards of practical labor are meager. The now-defunct Hon. Robert Treat Paine Prize rewarded the best original investigation plus "practical conclusions" of some form of charity work. However, an essay on "The Special Phase of the Labor Question" could...
...exam. Brinton, like Louis Hartz '40 and Leonard K. Nash '39 won deturs, prizes of books awarded out of the Charity of Edward Hopkins to students making Group 1 for the first time. In 1936 Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. 38 wrote a laudable sophomore essay and won a Ferguson. Walter Jackson Bate '39 won a Bowdoin in 1942 for an essay on "A Rejection of Intensity: Prosodic Development of Keats from May to September, 1819." Samuel Beer also won $300 in 1939 for his "Appetite and Reason: A Humanistic Theory of Ethics...