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"Twenty years ago, when the 200-inch telescope project came up before our group in New York, one of the trustees raised an objection . . . 'Aren't we acquiring more knowledge than we can assimilate?' . . . Obviously the difficulty lies in the fact that there is no way of...
If several of the poorer items in this sixth issue of "Wake" were not so blatantly characteristic of a certain persistent type of writing, I would by-pass them entirely in favor of the better pieces, which comprise the bulk of the magazine. But when creations such as Austryn Wainhouse...
Two other stories--"Worth A Golden Spoon" by Cledwyn Hughes and "Episode of a House Remembered" by John Rogers (one of the three undergraduate editors of "Wake")--appear to me to be cleanly written and clearly conceived pieces, but they nonetheless left me with a peculiarly unsatisfied feeling. "Worth A...
¶ Raised no objection when the Federal Housing Administrator appointed his younger brother, J. Vivian Truman, 62, to a $7,100 job as district FHA director for western Missouri.
The issue came to a head with the formation nationally of ADA, a specifically non-Communist organization pledged to the extension of "the Roosevelt-Willkie tradition." To join this group, HLU had to amend its constitution, and, further, join SDA (ADA's student branch), as individuals. This latter provision met...