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Philip J. Darlington, Jr. '34, curator of coleoptera at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Saunders MacLane, professor of Mathematics, and Garrett Birkhoff '32, professor of Mathematics, are among the nine Massachusetts teachers and artists to obtain grants for work in their fields...
...said Professor Garrett Mattingly of Manhattan's Cooper Union, "recognize the tendency of the emotionally naive ... to distort history into patriotic legend. But these obvious perversions are not really dominant. . . . What does need correction is another form of cultural isolationism which is spreading in this country. I mean our increasing preoccupation with our national past, so that history, in the U.S., is coming to mean almost exclusively the history of the U.S." New York City, he said, now teaches twice as much U.S. history as 25 years...
Lars V. Ahlfors (Mathematics), Paul D. Bartlett (Chemistry), Marland P. Billings '23 (Geology), Francis Birch '24 (Geology). Garrett Birkhoff '32 (Mathematics), Lemuel R. Cleveland (Biology), Carleton S. Coon '25 (Anthropology), Frederick B. Deknatel (Fine Arts), Rupert Emerson '21 (Government), Merle Fainsod (Government), Edwin Frickey (Economics), Mason Hammond '25 (Greek and Latin, History), Michael Karpovich (History), Donald C. McKay (History), Saunders MacLane (Mathematics), Arthur T. Merritt (Music), Jean-Joseph Seznee (Romance Languages and Literatures), Jabez C. Street (Physics), Kenneth V. Thimann (Biology), Bartlett J. Whiting '25 (English), John D. Wild (Philosophy), Donald C. Williams (Philosophy), and E. Bright Wilson, Jr. (Chemistry...
What kind of man do Methodists want their minister to be? To find out, Dr. Murray H. Leiffer of Garrett Biblical Institute at Northwestern made a two-year survey. To all district lay leaders,* plus samplings of Methodist women and youth, Dr. Leiffer's Bureau of Social Research sent a formidable questionnaire. The result, published this week in book form and titled The Layman Looks at the Minister (Abingdon-Cokesbury; $1.50), makes 160 pages of required reading for theological students. Laymen will find it an absorbing composite of the country's largest Protestant church body...
Some of Tomorrow's numerous alumni complain that an editor must be psychic himself to work for a psychic boss. Serenely stroking her nine gold bracelets, thrice-married Eileen Garrett says sweetly: "I've never had anything but a neurotic editor until this very moment. You know," she adds with a glitter, "the number of phonies you meet in this town...