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Provost Paul H. Buck will receive an honorary Doctor of Law degree when the University of Puerto Rico celebrates its 50th anniversary, but the Provost will not be on hand to claim his award...
Nothing could be further from the truth. What I have done, when I have participated in public life, e.g. in assisting American military government in Germany, or advising the government of Puerto Rico on their constitution, is not covered by my freedom as an academic teacher. I am responsible for it in a strictly political way, like every other man who might have done these things instead of me. Clashes with the law are even more obviously outside the ken of academic freedom...
...Philadelphia last week, the Pennsylvania Academy welcomed the city to its 148th annual art exhibition and handed out kudos for the best work in the show. The prize for the top painting went to an old & familiar name, Abstract Muralist Rico Lebrun, for a panel from his dark and angry Crucifixion (TIME, March 19, 1951). But the top sculpture winner was a surprise: a Roman Catholic priest who teaches art at Notre Dame...
...million in new, convertible debentures for all the outstanding common stock in Chicago & Southern. The merged company, to be known as Delta-Chicago & Southern, will have 6,474 miles of routes through the South and Midwest, plus another 3,034 (now owned by C. & S.) to Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica and Venezuela...
Jamaica, much the largest and richest of the present federating group, will provide more than half the federation's 2,400,000 population. But if all the colonies unite, total population will be about 4,500,000 (double Puerto Rico's). The larger mainland colonies, if they decide to join, have ample room for the surplus population of such overcrowded islands as Barbados (1,246 inhabitants...