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...York City's concern over its juvenile delinquency is growing. Its school discipline is poor (TIME, Dec. 14). Last week Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia asked a 16-year-old lad to give the delinquency committee the benefit of his advice. Reason: the lad, solemn Seymour ("Sunshine") Schantz, has been chairman of a group of boys who surveyed their schools and sent the Mayor "the most constructive" report he had received...
...Seymour Schantz and his committee are members of a club called the Boys' Brotherhood Republic, whose motto is "So long as there are boys in trouble, we too are in trouble." The Manhattan B.B.R. enrolls some 300 "citizens,"* occupies a lower East Side tenement, is supervised in a hands-off way by just one adult - short, dark Director George Ougourlian. The club is supported by a philanthropic board of directors and dime-a-month "taxes" from the citizens...
Pallbearers were President Conant, Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, Charles Francis Adams '88, president of the Board of Overseers; John F. Moors '83, retired fellow; George R. Agassiz '84, former president of the Board of Overseers; Charles Seymour, president of Yale University; and Henry L. Shattuck '01, Dr. Roger I. Lee '01, Charles A. Coolidge '17, and Henry James '99, all fellows of the College...
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson admitted last week that the wartime changes would put a great crimp in the liberal education of men. Yale's President Charles Seymour spoke for most U.S. college presidents when he stressed Yale's determination to carry on as a traditional university...
...faculty will not only continue to provide training for college students now in reserves, Seymour continued, but it will also provide college courses to those men whom the Army and Navy send for reassignment study...