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"Although it was completely unrelated to anything I had done in the past, it seemed a good time to find out if I would be any good at it." He lost no time proving he was a natural. And as acting president for the past five months, he has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: The Y of It All | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

The counsel for the State, in its opening argument to the jury, stated the prosecution's main contentions. He argued that on July 4, 1961, at the barbeque held at Ichauway Plantation in Baker County a spat occured between a Negro man and his wife, and her son. Ware, attempting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Report From Albany, Ga. | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

> Observed the end of his six-year term as member of the Harvard Board of Over seers with a White House stag dinner for 42 fellow Harvard types, including President Nathan Pusey and Charles A. Coolidge, senior member of the Harvard Corporation. Following cocktails and dinner (dessert: glace acadé...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Message to the South | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

Beating by Scripture. The "fatal poison of irresponsible power" made brutes of most slaveholders, writes Douglass. Even in the border state of Maryland, where Douglass lived, slaves were regularly flogged by masters who were fond of paraphrasing Scripture. "He that knoweth his master's will, and doeth it not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Black Abolitionist | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

President Pusey opened the issue shortly after his arrival at the University by appointing a committee headed by John Nicholas Brown '22, a former Overseer, to study the current situation in the visual arts and recommend changes. The committee's report, returned in 1956, expressed the conviction that although the...

Author: By Michael S. Gruen, | Title: A Center in Search of a Program | 5/22/1963 | See Source »

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