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...Tonight at 9:30 WBZ will broadcast the Town Hall of the Air, debating the question, "How Can Philosophy and Religion Meet Today's Needs?" Phi Beta Kappa is cooperating, and has provided the three speakers: Dr. Reinhold Niebubr, Dr. Harry A. Overstreet, and Dr. Irwin Edman...
...delegates to the Congress are: Edward Ames '42, David P. Bennett '42, Fleischman, Maurice S. Friedman '43, Edward B. Ginsberg, Jr. '43, Alan R. Gottlieb '41, Lawrence B. Grose '41, Samuel S. Hermann '40, Jonas N. Muller '40, Basil R. Pollitt '41, Walter K. Rosen '42, and Irwin Ross...
Colleagues of Palache, together with University officials and former students, will held a reception in his honor on February 5 at the Faculty Club. At that time a portrait of him by Irwin Hoffman of New York will be presented to the University; it will later hang at the Mineralogical Museum, where he has been active for forty-five years...
Viceroy. On Good Friday 1926, the new Viceroy's ship rounded Point Colaba and anchored off the ornamental Gateway of India in Bombay Harbor. Ashore India was prepared to greet her new ruler with the customary fanfare. India waited. Lord Irwin sent word that he considered Good Friday an inappropriate day for pomp. Instead he went ashore unofficially to attend a three-hour Good Friday agony service in Bombay. Not until the next morning did the new ruler officially step from his launch to Indian soil while the white warships of the Indian squadron boomed 31 guns...
...Lord Irwin made British rule less onerous for India. He acknowledged that India had a Nationalist movement afoot. He was willing to work on a long-term basis, for some measure of self-government-with many safeguards for Britain. He made the British Government's historic statement on Indian home rule: "I am authorized on behalf of His Majesty's Government to state clearly . . . that the natural issue of India's constitutional progress is the attainment of dominion status." When he left India the British press almost unanimously acclaimed him as having saved India from a blood...