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...himself be buried without fuss. After all, why make much ceremonial ado about a body that has just passed into Nothing? But in practice, even atheists have a hankering for music and a few well-chosen words, and this pressing problem has just been taken up by Corliss Lamont, 52, the wealthy fellow traveler. In a pamphlet entitled A Humanist Funeral Service (Horizon Press; $1.00), Lamont paradoxically proposes some comforting last rites for unbelievers. In 1932, Lamont wrote his Columbia Ph.D. thesis on "The Illusion of Immortality," and he still insists that "death is the final end of the individual...
Since its founding in 1925, the Fund has provided the University with over $7,000,000. A large part of this total was spent in the construction of Lamont Library...
Since the film will not be shown at Lamont, as in the past, it will be open to Radcliffe as well as to the College...
...Slipher's visit to the Lamont-Hussey Observatory at Bloemfontein was a kind of dress rehearsal for September 1956, when Mars will come closer (only 35 million miles away) than at any time between 1941 and 1971. This year it came fairly close, but it was too low in the southern sky to permit the great telescopes of the Northern Hemisphere to observe it effectively. Since there are few observatories in the Southern Hemisphere, most of the world's Mars-watchers are waiting impatiently...
...national economy is likely to undergo a period of expansion n 1955, rather than continued contraction, Lamont University Professor Sumner H. Slichter predicted yesterday...