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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This latest decision is an extension of the verdict of "Missouri v. Holland," in which the Court ordered the State of Missouri to provide equal facilities but failed to mention the matter of time. Missouri, thereupon, provided a one room, one teacher law school for Negroes pending the time when it could construct more suitable accommodations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Up From Freedom | 1/14/1948 | See Source »

...matter of salary, Harlow got $10,000 as coach and several thousand as curator of Oology. If Globe correspondent Vern Miller '42 is an authority, this is tops for the Ivy League, with the exception of Lou Little, and is exceeded by only a handful of coaches in the United States. Whether Harlow's successor will hold an extra-curricular job or not is a matter of speculation...

Author: By Robert W. Morgas jr., | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 1/13/1948 | See Source »

...metaphysical speculations culminated in Process and Reality (1929). Philosopher John Dewey once wrote that he was not sure he understood the book, but that it was undoubtedly the most significant work in systematic philosophy since Leibnitz. Whitehead had no use for philosophic systems that split reality between mind & matter, or between physical objects and man's ideas of them. (When someone asked him "What's more important, ideas or things'?" Whitehead replied: "Why, I should imagine ideas about things.") For Whitehead, all reality was a pattern of becomings and perishings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Becomings & Perishings | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

Menzel & Salisbury are trying to find out (no easy matter) whether the sun is really broadcasting those long, strong radio waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Planets & Paramecia | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

George E. Cole, manager of the Coop, was reached early this afternoon at home weher he was confined throughout the day by illness, and therefore missed the robbery. He assured all Harvard students that "dividends are unjeopardized, for the money was insured for the full amount, and the matter is now in the process of adjustment...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Stick-up Cleans Coop | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

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