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Arthémise Goertz, who wrote this Literary Guild selection for July, is fortyish and kindly, and she has had her quota of happiness, excitement and tragedy. Her New Orleans childhood was in the "German tradition of discipline and duty." She graduated from Tulane University magna cum laude, took with her a Phi Beta Kappa key and her Spanish professor as a husband. Later she lived in Mexico, wrote a book about it (South of the Border), then went to Japan on a scholarship. The day after Pearl Harbor the Japs made her a civilian war prisoner. She came back...
Undergraduate recipients of the Fellowship were: David G. Gill '46, a graduate magna cum laude in economics; Henry B. Helson '47, a graduate summa cum laude in mathematics; and Truman O. Woodruff '46, a graduate summa cum laude in physics...
...employers' rights to speak out against unions. It would deprive workers of the right to strike over anything but questions of wages, hours, work requirements and work conditions; strikes over any question of union security would be unfair labor practices. These rules drastically revised the so-called "Magna Charta of Labor"-the Wagner Act. By giving employers the right to ask for court injunctions when confronted by an "unlawful strike," the bill drastically revised the Norris-La Guardia Act. It attacked Communist union influence by barring not only Communists, but even ex-Communists and party-liners, from holding union...
Those who were awarded degrees Magna cum Laude are Theodore S. Baer '44 (Economics)--with highest honors, Marvin A. Finkelstein '47 (Government), George R. Hooper '45 (Economics), Robert L. Koehl '44 (History), Roger B. Lazerus '46 (History), Raymond R. Schiff '47 (Physics), Charles G. Sellers, Jr. '45 (History and Literature), Louis E. Smart, Jr. '45 (Economics), and Francis L. Wiener '47 (History and Literature...
Undoubtedly, in these days of speed-up, with graduate schools calmly demanding a Magna for admission, no suggestion can seem more loathsome than that of a new degree requirement. Yet in the General Education program a quite drastic, closely related change is being effected without strong, opposition simply because it makes sense. The sense to a requirement of a knowledge of the large out lines of World History is plain too if only on the level that it can help stave off unnecessary war hysteria. In this connection, a recent study-also made at Princeton-found that "30 million Americans...