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Playing its aces early, the Smoker Committee presented all its stars--Victor Borge, Al Capp, Art Valpey, and Sherman Feller in the opening half of the evening. Lack of any main attractions is Kitty Kallen's last minute failure to appear, caused Freshmen to file out even more calmly than they field...
...last minute program addition, singer Kitty Kallen will appear at the blow-out, although she will not sing, the eight-man Smoker Committee announced last night. At the same time Mile. Charpentier, termed "France's top songbird," notified the committeemen that sudden Philadelphia engagements will keep her from the show...
...Horace Kallen, dean of the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, will lecture at Phillips Brooks House tonight at 8 o'clock on "The Threat to America's Cultural Patterns" in a talk sponsored by the Hillel Foundation...
Editors of the volume are venerable John Dewey and a fellow philosopher, Professor Horace M. Kallen of Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Although Earl Russell is now safely berthed as a lecturer in the Barnes Foundation art school near Philadelphia, the authors believe the triumph of "fundamentalist clerics, machine politicians and professional patriots" who had him ousted from C.C.N.Y. remains a peril to freedom of learning in the U.S. Some of their points...
...Horace Kallen of New York's New School for Social Research accused some scientists of using "professional expressions" to mystify rather than to clarify, and opposed the unified language movement by declaring: "Common sense advises that a common language guarantees neither common peace nor common understanding." Difficulty in the way of a common language is that chemistry, physics, biology, astronomy and dozens of other sciences and subdivisions each need a battery of precise terms for precise communication, so that if a common language is to take the place of special technical vocabularies, it would have...