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Novelist Lloyd C. Douglas, 72, told a Boston interviewer that he was staunchly opposed to change and that he tried to get that idea across in books like The Robe and The Big Fisherman. "I have only one theme," he said. "All authors have only one theme, though few will admit it. My theme, it happens, people like, because they long to stay...
When Political Scientist Benjamin Fletcher Wright of Harvard University was appointed president of Smith College (TIME, March 21), he had a reservation: he was afraid he did not know enough about women's education. "I've got to do some homework," said he. Last week at his inauguration (which coincided with Smith's 75th anniversary celebration), President Wright showed how far his homework had taken him. He jumped right into the biggest question of all: What should women be educated...
...liberal education was all right as far as it went, but Wright thought something more needed to be added. Said he: "the place of women in the present scheme of things is confused and unstable . . . We must constantly bear in mind, however, that the great majority of women who attend college will marry and have children, and that for most of them their home will be the focus of their lives." Neither women students nor their colleges could ignore the warnings "that the American home is not so satisfactory a place ... as it should...
...women's colleges was clear to Smith's new president: they must thoroughly investigate "the role of women in contemporary life," and perhaps change their curricula accordingly. The "older and more firmly established" colleges had been slow to do so. "I can see no justification," said he, "for allowing the newer and frankly experimental colleges to take the initiative in making the investigations and the trials which may seem to be called...
...also a realist. In Washington last week, speaking to the District Medical Society, he sounded a warning: doctors getting set for an all-out fight against compulsory health insurance had better put their own house in order. Hawley had been talking to people all over the country, he said, and "I've come to the conclusion, with a great deal of regret, that the confidence of some of our people has been shaken in the unselfishness and spirit of public service in the medical profession...