Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discrimination in fraternities is important because fraternities themselves are important. There are more than 2,750 Greek-letter chapters in the United States, and at many schools they house and feed most of the student body. They frequently run the social and extra-curricular life of those schools. Educational authorities estimate that 90 per cent of these fraternities have discriminatory clauses in their charters. Most specify "non-Semitic members of the Caucasian race;" some southern groups go even further, and admit only White Protestants." Last week, the fraternities voted that chapters should "take steps" to climinate such admission bars...
...works include "A Map of Life," "Communism and Man," "Theology and Sanity," and a translation of St. Augustine's "Confessions...
With his wife's help (he never mastered Japanese), Hearn translated dozens of legends and poems, composed scores of essays and sketches on Japanese life. In the essays prepared for the eyes of Western readers, he remained his adopted country's devoted partisan to the end. Loyally, he painted his adopted country as a peace-loving land menaced by the West. Wrote Hearn: "An evil dream comes oftentimes to those who love Japan: the fear that all her efforts are being directed, with desperate heroism, only to prepare the land for the sojourn of peoples older by centuries...
...arrival. "There are no depths to stir, no race-profundities to explore: all is like a Japanese riverbed . . . never filled but in times of cataclysm and destruction." The Japanese government added to his disillusionment by easing him out of his university job. In the last years of his life he often longed to escape both family and country. He never did. A heart attack killed him on Sept...
...Bicentennial Celebration ends this week with two lectures at Fogg Museum. Edwin Redslob, Rector of the Free University of Berlin, will talk tonight at 8 p.m. on "Goethe and the Graphic Arts," and Karl Vietor, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture, will discuss "Goothe's Concept of Life" in German, Thursday...