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...Persecution and abuse from an anonymous source" have caused Mrs. Helen Maynard to resign from her post as president of the Harvard University Employees Representative Association, she revealed last night...
...Maynard, who became president in April after the resignation of Elwyn Wyman, said "this undue criticism is ruining my health...
Higher education in the U.S. is chaotic and is bogged down in makeshift adjustments to environment, too much vocational specialization and lack of a basic philosophy. This is the theme of Robert Maynard Hutchins' new book, The Conflict in Education (Harper; $2), published this week. Educator Hutchins, longtime (1929-51) head of the University of Chicago and now associate director of the Ford Foundation, warns that unless the universities begin preparing students to participate in the "Great Conversation that began with the dawn of history and continues at the present day," the outlook for Western civilization is indeed grim...
...Sick World. John Maynard Keynes was a brilliant intellectual and financial operator who made a couple of million dollars dealing in international currencies and commodities half an hour each morning while still in bed. He wrote a mathematical masterpiece on probability, was the darling of the avant-garde Bloomsbury set, chairman of a life-insurance company, husband of a beautiful ballerina, a governor of the Bank of England, a spectacular bridge player. "The Architect of Capitalism Viable." as Author Heilbroner calls him. Keynes also wrote an intricate book, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, drastically revising Adam Smith...
Traveling Man. In Portland, Ore., missing from home for a day and a half, eight-year-old Richard Warwick was finally found several miles away when he pedaled a pilfered tricycle up to the Maynard Motel, flashed a $26 bankroll, asked for a room for the night...