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Prim Reputation. Why has Harvard's Divinity School lagged behind? Part of the answer is that, although avowedly nondenominational, it has long been known chiefly as a training, ground for Unitarian clergy. This gave Harvardmen of other denominations little incentive for supporting the school. Another reason is sheer neglect. While Harvard graduates talked proudly of their law school, or their undergraduate philosophy courses, the Divinity School, its endowment steadily falling behind, was of interest only to a small group of alumni who admired its prim, scholarly reputation...
...Senior Tutor's jobs that of co-ordinating tutorial and departmental advising. This is so vague that the leaders of the five largest departments, who have been ominously muttering about departmental sovereignty, could easily maintain their grip on tutorial, a grip that in the past has often led to neglect of undergraduates...
...their very nature from the mainline of University thought, the commuters have gone their own way until their problems became too big to go by unnoticed. "We've neglected the commuters," Dean Bender said last week. On Tuesday the University made up for some of its neglect by passing the senior tutors plan which will move Dudley Non-Resident Students Center closer to the exalted position of a Harvard House...
Faced with these two opposing views--one of which calls for improving the commuter situation through the Houses, the other through Dudley--the University has done almost nothing in either direction. One reason for the neglect is the fact that the Administration did not want to spend money improving a center which might very well be abolished completely...
...took place in Canton, in a hall named for Sun Yatsen, who learned his Christianity from missionaries. Five Canadian nuns, after nearly nine months in Red China's jails, stood up before a howling mob of 6,000. The "people's court" heard the charges against them: "Neglect, inhuman treatment and murder" of more than 2,000 orphans. One witness, an eleven-year-old girl, shrilly testified that she had been locked up with other youngsters in a room infested with hungry rats that ate at the children's flesh. The sisters, all from the Holy Child...