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...Church, conceived the basic idea of the Foundation in 1937 and persuaded Bishop Rhinelander to endow it. Today the organization, which supports itself primarily by donations, boasts a board of trustees including such names as John H. Finley '25, Eliot Professor of Greek and Master of Eliot House, and Mason Hammond '25, associate professor of Greek and Latin and Master of Kirkland House...
...Harvard University's football team started a Negro tackle, quiet, 6 ft. 4 in. Chester Pierce, in its game with the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. It was one of the very few times a Negro had played against a Southern university on a field south of the Mason-Dixon line. Many in the crowd of 24,000 Southerners waved flags of the Confederacy; many of them also applauded Harvard's Pierce for the hard game he played while his team took a 47-0 walloping...
Information, Please (Fri. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). An old favorite at a new time. Guests: British Cinemactor James Mason and wife, Pamela Kellino...
Charlottesville, a university town of very old traditions and very new football talent, hadn't had such a time since Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon surveyed a line and laid the foundation for a permanent sectional psychoses...
Geographically, Virginia, northernmost of the Confederate states, lies about the middle of the Atlantic seaboard. But its traditions, the record of the numerous and illustrious leaders it has given the nation, and its reverence for the gentility, charm, and grace that characterize life below the Mason-Dixon line, make Virginia one of the most "southern" of all states. Its attitude toward racial segregation stems almost inevitably from the brutality and humiliation of the Reconstruction era, an era whose traces have not even yet entirely passed away...