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Died. Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount Templewood, 79, longtime British diplomat, who excelled in tennis, often bumbled in diplomacy; of a heart attack; in London. As Foreign Secretary in 1935, he engineered with wily French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval the notorious pact that surrendered a fifth of besieged Ethiopia to Mussolini. Forced by public outrage to resign, he bounced back to office under Neville Chamberlain, backed Chamberlain's Munich appeasement because he felt it would intimidate Russia. "He passes," someone said, "from experience to experience, like Boccaccio's virgin, without discernible effect upon his condition...
James S. Ackerman, visiting lecturer in Fine Arts, J. N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb, University Professor, and Renato Poggioli, chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature, participated at the first meeing of the group this past weekend...
Hyder E. Rollins, successor to George Lyman Kittredge as Gurney Professor of English Literature, died last Friday in Cambridge. He was 69 years...
...pushed out to "The Frontiers of Knowledge" yesterday in a colloquium called "The Humanities in the Age of Science." Three of the University's foremost humanists, Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature, John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, and J. N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, exposed the dangers lurking in the recent onrush of the sciences...
...Large Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College Observatory, will argue that "Space Travel Is Just Around the Corner." In Emerson Hall D, J.N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, John H. Finley, Jr., Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, and Perry G.E. Miller, professor of American Literature, will defend the place of "Humanities in the Age of Science...