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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sponsored by the University's Roman Catholic Calvert Club, Adler faced a capacity crowd that jammed into Kent Hall, piled up in the aisles and overflowed into every available space. Then, for the next hour, he ripped into great chunks of Darwinian theory. Though he conceded that the Origin of Species (one of the Great Books) might properly describe the evolution of plants and animals, he flatly challenged Darwin's later hypothesis relating men to apes...
Professor John Lighten Synge (rhymes with ring) is a bald-domed, red-mustached Irishman whose English ancestors moved to the ould sod so long ago (1600s) that Red Hugh himself ought to forgive him their origin. For 22 years, off & on, he has taught physics and mathematics in the U.S. and Canada, long enough for his speech to lose all but a touch of brogue. But in his new book, Science-Sense and Nonsense (Norton; $2.75), he shows that he has hung on to more than his share of native wit and irreverence-qualities that made his playwright uncle, John...
Novelist James (Lost Horizon) Hilton let Columnists Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg in on a well-kept secret-the origin of his famous Shangri-La. "La means 'mountain pass' in the language of Tibet, but the Shangri was my own idea . . . made it up out of whole cloth because it sounded so Tibetan, you see. Later on, a Far Eastern scholar wrote and told me that Shangri means 'secret' in Tibetan, so there you have it ... Rather surprising, what...
...Christian Fellowship representative suggested that a Protestant minister be appointed because of "the University's Protestant origin." He wants a Protestant minister who is objective and "would not be tied to any specific church...
...signal is not a cure-all, and in this case would not justify the expense of its installation, because it ignores the special characteristics of the De Wolf Street corner as well as failing to remedy the basic origin of danger. It is the breadth of the intersection that is the underlying cause of mishaps which occur there. There is no clearly defined point of entry for cars to move on to Memorial Drive, and it is possible for vehicles to continue from De Wolf Street onto the Drive without slackening speed but utilizing the full expanse of the corner...