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Boston School Committee candidates Arthur J. Gartland '36 and Melvin H. King will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Longfellow Hall. Gartland, who ran fifth in last month's primary, is considered the most liberal of the incumbents. King is the only Negro in the ten-man contest, the chief issue of which has been the busing out of predominantly Negro neighborhood...
...Sinclair has prepared an excellent edition of La Commedia that offers the original Italian and a faithful prose translation on opposite pages. But for the reader without Italian, the most satisfactory versions are those in blank verse. Lawrence Grant White is both accurate and musical, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, though his diction is at times antique, presents passages of stunning power and precision. Unfortunately, neither of these is readily available at this writing. In preparing the translations of this article, TIME'S editors principally consulted White, Longfellow-and Dante...
Delivering the School of Education's Inglis Lecture before an audience of 200 in Longfellow Hall, Ulich emphasized that religion and education cannot be "squeezed into watertight departments, even by a legal decision." He warned that the schools' freedom from the task of religious indoctrination may become an excuse for "laziness with respect to teaching the spiritual tradition of humanity...
...human race and prince of good livers!" The line appeared in London's Vanity Fair and described a beguiling American who counted among his friends Bismarck, the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), Thomas Huxley, President Garfield, the Emperor of Brazil, Tennyson, Thackeray and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
Robert Ulich, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education, Emeritus, will deliver the annual Inglis Lecture at 8 p.m. tonight in Longfellow Hall. He will speak on the "Church and State in Education...