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This start toward peaceable integration in Virginia can only be praised. The attitude in Arlington County, across the Potomac from Washington, D.C., or in Norfolk cannot, though, be compared to that in Little Rock or places in the "deep south," for the state of Jefferson and Lee has always retained some aura of respect for law. But the sequence of last month's events in Virginia may encourage the southern moderates who wish to comply with the Supreme Court decision of 1954 and who want to keep their schools open rather than battle at Armageddon. Moderates in Atlanta and Charleston...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Emeritus, returned to lecture yesterday in History 169, his first College lecture since 1954. "It was like an old horse returning to pasture," the elder Schlesinger commented last night...
...addition, three professors have gone to the University of Leningrad, as part of an exchange program between the two Universities. Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Merle Fain-sod, professor of Government, and Richard E. Pipes, associate professor of History, will remain in Russia for the next two weeks and interim arrangements have been made for their courses...
Dean Bundy's office announced yesterday that John K. Fairbank '29, associate director of the Center for East Asian Studies, will become Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History on July 1. Fairbank, a specialist on China, will be one of four panelists discussing the background of Sino-American relationships Tuesday at M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium...
Museum Director Lee Malone says: "All this space is so majestic, so flexible." To prove it last week Director Malone put on a display of 60 ultramodern paintings (e.g., France's Hans Hartung and Manhattan's Mark Rothki), hung each picture from the ceiling on picture wire to provide an installation as nearly invisible as the museum's own structure. Donor Cullinan said happily: "The new wing is like a great stage which faces the city. Another might have built a nice, safe building. I wanted something that would be contemporary for generations to come." Touring...