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Actionist Deputy Piero Calamandrei, rector of Florence University, told a Boccaccio-flavored anecdote to express his opposition to the contradictions of a Constitution which proclaimed both religious equality and the preferential position of one faith: "This reminds me of the old man in Florence who had two mistresses, one young and the other old. The man's hair was partly black, partly grey. Each of his mistresses wanted him completely for herself. So the young mistress tore out all his grey hair, while the old one tore out all the black. The poor man's head of course...
...same meeting, the previously announced Caen University project will be discussed, and applications for both accepted. The rector of the famed French school requested help from the International Activities Committee last fall, explaining that living quarters had been almost entirely destroyed by the Allied advance of July...
...addition to the notes of students, the Rector of the Sorbonne writes: "this generous gesture deeply moves me, and I am overjoyed to find what a high ideal of intellectual and, more simply, human solidarity, American students are creating...
University students may have an opportunity to aid in the reconstruction of Normandy this summer. Requests for help have come in the form of a letter from the rector of Caen University received yesterday by the International Activities Committee of the Student Council and another from Les Andelys, Nomandy, raising the possibility of setting up a student-run camp there...
Writing in answer to a letter from the Committee which asked how Harvard undergraduates might be of aid to Caen, the rector expressed the hope that students could come to Europe this summer to help rebuild the University. Almost destroyed on July 7, 1944, by the Allied advance, Caen is now holding classes again but, according to the rector, is in great need of new housing facilities and additional labor to erect them...