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Tonight's speakers and their selections are: Howard L. Blackwell Jr. '39, of Cambridge, Mass., excerpt from "Messer Marco Polo," by Donn Byrne; Tucker Dean '37, of Chicago, Ill., "The Committee for Industrial Organization: A Challenge to the campus," by John L. Lewis; Edward J. Duggan '37, of Chelsea, Mass., "The supreme Judicial Tribunal," by wil- liam E. Borah; Arthur Ellison '37, of Chelsea, Mass., excerpt from "The Selective Principle in Education," by James B. Conant; Norman E. Hunt '38, of Brookline, Mass., "The Bombardment," by Amy Lowell; Wiley E. Mayne '38, of Sanborn, Ia., "Daniel O'Connell," by Wendell...
...proud of being a self-made man, who had been schooled intermittently in his youth, braiding straw in his father's farmhouse in Franklin, Mass, to earn his books, working his way through Brown University and Litchfield (Conn.) Law School. In 1832, when his wife Charlotte Messer, daughter of Brown's president, had died, Lawyer Mann's hair supposedly turned white in a single night and he became more reclusive and contemplative than ever...
Should Professor Baxter receive the same kind of jeers for his discussion of the Civil War, Messer Hearst and his ilk would probably demand at least the recall of our ambassador. Yet the two cases have this much in common--they are both attempts to increase international understanding...
Robert Bertram Lichenstein, Oscar Mendel Lurie, Benjamin Maurice Mark, Branford Price Millar, Erling Charles Olsen, Russell George Olsen, Roy Messer Pearson, Jr., Joseph Henry Phillips, Irving Murray Pinansky, Richard McMahon Powell, David Rome, William Shapiro, Samuel Tredwell Skidmore, Jr., Stanley Stellar, Shigeto Tsuru, Sherwood Larned Washburn, John Burke Wilkinson, Richard Edward Wolf...
...delicacy of the issue is Mr. Mencken's thin contribution. By a series of magnificent obiter dicta he manages to make reviews of works by Messer Herbert Agar and Will Durant pinch-hit for his missing editorials. The first of these reveals in a few well-chosen words the editor's reaction to N. R. A. and all that; the second says a few words on the Slav Utopia (Mencken's phrase for Red Russia) which should be prescribed reading to every member of the Harvard Socialist-Liberal-Club-Students'-League Knights-of-the-White-Kamelia organization. Further than this...