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...last week, the controversy over the Nation had boiled up into a first-rate argument over freedom of the press. In the current issue of the Nation, 107 educators, lawyers, clergymen and writers, such as Reinhold Niebuhr, Sumner Welles, Publishers Palmer Hoyt, Mark Ethridge and Ralph McGill, signed "An Appeal to Reason and Conscience" demanding that the New York City board change its mind. New York City's School Superintendent William Jansen had defended the ban as "based on the long-established American tradition that religious discussions and criticism of religion have no place in the classroom...
...Boston University; 8. M.I.T.; 14, at Brown; 15, Boston College; 22, McGill...
Writing in the New York Times this week, the Atlanta Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill declared that the Dixiecrats' victory over Harry Truman had "at least done away with their earlier fiction that they were really the Democratic Party...
...civil rights issue has been presented . . ..by the Dixiecrats ... in a distorted manner," said McGill. "Thousands of rural Southerners believe that, if they vote for Truman, they will be voting for social equality, for intermarriage, for opening their schools, churches and social gatherings to Negroes . . . This party, despite its label, is really the anti-Negro party...
Boston University finished second with 235 points, followed by Yale (2331/2); M.I.T., last year's champion (225); George Washington (217); Boston College (195); Brown (182); Kings Point (154); Army (129 1/2); Middlebury (126); McGill (120); and Lafayette...