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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since teaching fellows make up over 50 per cent of the Board of Freshman Advisers, the lack of Social Relations fellows has resulted in a poor representation of the field on the Board. Only one person from the Department is among the 117 advisers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soc. Rel. Alumni Spurn Teaching Fellow Posts | 4/23/1959 | See Source »

...refreshing to talk with a person who reflects this attitude--which some cynics attribute only to "the folk." Pete Seeger is proud of the fact that he is part of the American folk, although he is probably one of the few Exeter and Harvard students to admit it. No matter how you feel about Seeger's political opinions, it is difficult to deny that his convictions are formulated from a genuine love of the human race...

Author: By John R. Adler and Paul S. Cowan, S | Title: The Incorrigible Optimist | 4/22/1959 | See Source »

...amendment to insure that the Council representative have no connection with the HSA was withdrawn after Lewis B. Oliver, Jr. '61 warned that the Board "would not be favorable to accepting such a person." It was finally decided that the delegate must have no "intimate connection" with the Agencies and that he not be the manager of any one agency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Requests Advisory Position On HSA Board | 4/21/1959 | See Source »

...disillusionment with Castro among his old supporters of the middle and upper classes is becoming obvious. Last week, when his picture appeared in a newsreel in Havana's well-to-do Miramar suburb, not a person applauded. In Washington, Castro's staunchest congressional friend, Oregon's Charles O. Porter, said: "I do not think Castro is a dictator yet, but I do see an ominous trend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The First 100 Days | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...through the years they have reached more and more toward the adult. Li'I Abner is a backwoods peepshow, abounding in pork-fed bosoms and thighs. Steve Canyon is an illustrated primer on military chess and international intrigue. The only violence not yet committed on the ageless person of Orphan Annie is rape. Even Peanuts, a comic with its points for young and old, is often a subtle dose of child psychology. Last week a comic created and drawn just for the kiddies-and, what's more, for kiddies too young to read-was running in eight papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Woo for the Kiddies | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

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