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...took over six centuries to tame the barbarians that took possession of the Roman Empire," Columbia University's Historian Carlton J. H. Hayes wondered how long it would take to tame "the barbarians that are now infesting Europe." In the eyes of Princeton's Dr. Charles Rufus Morey, Marquand professor of art and archeology, the deluge had already arrived. Said he: "Never in the history of civilized art has humanity cut so poor a figure. Whatever is base, whatever is open to derision, whatever is ugly in human existence, is made a major theme not only...
...Mexico's Decisive Summer" proves, among other things, that Rufus Mathewson '41 has a first-hand acquaintance with that country and her politics. David Hennett '42 adds another to the long series of post-mortems on Franco currently in evidence. John Holabird's dynamic drawings are notably absent, but promised for next issue
...fear: if a large number of new Quakers should presently appear before the draft boards, lifelong Quakers might be refused the noncombatant duties which most were permitted in World War I. Good illustration of Quaker methods is the American Friends Service Committee, of which pink-cheeked, cricket-playing Philosopher Rufus Matthew Jones, 77, is chairman, and bucktoothed, towheaded Clarence Evan Pickett executive secretary. Organized in 1917 to clear up what mess it could in World War I's wake, the Committee raised and spent $25,000,000 in its first decade to care for Europe's needy. Without...
When LIFE'S close-up first appeared, one week last month, reactions among Negroes were generally friendly. Out of 16 letters in Earl Brown's mail, 13 (from Negro readers like President Rufus E. Clement of Atlanta University, North Carolina's Sportswriter Dave Hawkins) praised Author Brown for a good job. Said Joe Louis, according to a friend in Detroit: "I ain't read it yet. If he makes something out of it, let him make it. I make mine fighting...
...Connecticut Women's College Henry A. Tilghman Isabelle Foster, Milton Charles H. Tobias, Jr. Carol Flarsheim, Brookline Robert H. Troescher Doris Goerger, Lynbrook Byron E. Varn Rarette, Jr. Virginia Seay, Vassar John H. Vaughan Patricia Adams, Wellesley George Waissbord-Solovieff Marguerite Madden, Winsor Morton Waldstein Marie Core Duffy, Vassar Rufus F. Walker Susan Strong, Dover Willard M. Waterous Barbara Phair, Mount Holyoke College George F. Waters Ann Clarke, Beaver Country Day Frank J. Webster Jean Gebhard, Pine Manor John Wingate Weeks, II Sally Cole, North Andover Clifford E. Weihman Louise Brown, New York Joseph D. Welsh Helen Cronin, Milton Frederick...