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Died. Countess Mountbatten of Burma (nee the Hon. Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley), 58, aristocratic English beauty who traded her famous gowns for nursing garb at the outbreak of World War II and has worked for the Red Cross ever since, as the last Vicereine of India won the affection of India's impatient nationalists; in her sleep; in Jesselton, North Borneo...
Veritas members nevertheless sent out hundreds of letters to classmates and alumni acquaintances, urging protest against the appointment. Kenneth D. Robertson, Jr. '29 wrote to the Hon. Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. '27 (then Chairman of the Board of Overseers), asking "whether or not you now approve of the Oppenheimer appointment as William James lecturer," and "your views as to Dr. Oppenheimer's moral qualifications to lecture on the subject of ethics and philosophy." Though Robertson's letter began with some valid questions (the second never answered), it ended with a polemic...
Last week Columbia announced the last payment received from Henry Krumb. E.M. '98, D.Sc. (hon.) '51, who died last December: a bequest that may reach $10 million-one of the largest ever made to the university. Of the $6,500,000 or so available now, Krumb directed that about $3,000,000 be given to the university's first-rate engineering school to help pay for a proposed $22.5 million engineering center. But the wording of his will showed Engineer Krumb's real love...
...join with the overwhelming majority of Venezuelans today in sincerely regretting the violent attacks against the Hon. Richard M. Nixon. Such reprehensible acts do not in any manner express the feeling of the Venezuelan people, because they were carried out by hoodlums and irresponsible teenagers, mostly juvenile delinquents, who have taken abusive advantage of the climate of freedom of expression and reunion that has marked all the acts of the provisional government of this country. I am deeply saddened...
...last November Bernard Fagg, director of antiquities in Nigeria, paused on a cross-country journey to make a courtesy call on the Oni of Ife. The Oni, the Hon. Sir Adesoji Aderemi, King and spiritual leader of 4,500,000 Yoruba tribesmen, was delighted by the visit. An hour earlier, workmen, clearing a site for a new building, had uncovered a few delicately wrought bronze relics, and the Oni was eager to show them off. After one look at the find-two bronze statues, two egg-shaped staff finials, two solid brass staffs, and a decorated drinking vessel-Fagg rushed...