Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the acquisition of the polar library of famed Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Dartmouth developed a program of Northern studies that has become a national center for Arctic research. It is also one of the few small (3,006 students) liberal-arts colleges to have a Department of Russian Civilization. But in ten years. Dickey has made a name for himself as more than an able administrator. A practical man with a scholar's tastes, he has earnestly tried to produce alumni who will be men of both thought and action. "I do want," he once said, "this generation...
When the Emmett Till case first became news in Mississippi, the whole state was aroused against the crime, and anxious to see justice done. But the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (along with Life magazine and other Northern journals which referred to "lynching") obscured the issues so completely that the white people of the state retreated to their old position of distrust of the North and to white supremacy. The cause of better racial relations was deeply harmed. Another instance in which the NAACP seems to have hurt itself here was by its recent protest over...
...Bryant, were convicted, its crusade would suffer. This indictment may be untrue, but the NAACP could not have gotten better results, even if it had tried. The obvious injustice of its accusations against the state has made residents more convinced than ever that they are right and that all Northern liberals are lying...
...extreme. The NAACP just as much as any ultra-conservative group is helping to obscure the true picture in the South and to blur human understanding at a time when, if this country is to solve its racial problem, human understanding has never been so needed. As long as Northern liberals and Negro leaders fail to sympathize with the South's problems (and Southerners similarly refuse to admit to them), this country will be breached and weakened...
...only classify McCarthy as a liar or boob for so libeling Oppenheimer, but tend to forge that the other two really were atom spies. Similarly, the grouping of "such Mississippi stalwarts as Bibo, Rankin, and Fielding Wright" makes the average Southerner think that not only is all Northern criticism without basis in fact, but that Bilbo and Rankin were not so bad after...