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Five undergraduates have been selected for scholarships to spend the summer studying the culture of a South American country through first-hand contact with the people through the cooperation of the College and the Experiment in International Living, Dean Hanford announced yesterday...
...accompany one of the Experiment Groups which will spend the summer in one of the following countries: Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico. The purposes of the scholarships are to provide students in the United States with an opportunity of studying the culture of a South American country through first-hand contact with its people, of making friends in another country by living in selected homes in that country, and of improving one's spoken knowledge of a foreign language...
...offered is an illustrated talk on the "American Indian Peyote Cult," by Richard E. Schultes 4G. Schultes visited a number of western tribes that worship a drug which causes its users to see strange, colored hallucinations, and had some of the strange narcotic himself. Another interesting lecture is a first-hand description of the fall of France, by Frederick E. Pamp 1G, who was in Paris in May 1940 doing Red Cross work...
...bits of incoherent information about a few things. They would begin to think they were authorities on matters they knew nothing about. There are too many quacks who are saving and reconstructing the world when they don't even know their ABC's. If the student wants to get first-hand experience, he must put himself under first-hand conditions and remain there for some time. No, one can claim to know anything about labor conditions simply because he visited a factory on a sociology field trip...
WASHINGTON-Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's personal emissary to Great Britain, returned to the White House tonight to give the Chief Executive a first-hand report on his month's inspection tour of the embattled island...