Word: stellenbosch
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...faculty member, on the grounds of possible selfincrimination, to answer [such] questions . . . impairs confidence in his fitness to teach. It is also incompatible with the standards required of him as a member of his profession." ¶In South Africa, Prime Minister Daniel Malan, as Chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch, 1) gave his son his B.A. degree, and 2) issued a few stern Malan-props about a university's obligation to segregate its nonwhites. The nonsegregated Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand, said he, "are a blatant anomaly . . . A university, according to them, need not take into account...
...land is ours again," screamed Nationalist students at Pretoria and Stellenbosch universities. "We're boss now," crowed three young toughs in Prime Minister Daniel Malan's own Piquetberg; they stormed into Grocer Abe Ginsberg's Main Street store and helped themselves to cheese. "In future we'll take what we want without paying." In rural Burghersdorp a pro-Malan voter had got so excited over the election returns on his radio that he ran out firing his rifle in the air, accidentally shot down his antenna. A Smuts supporter kicked his radio to smithereens...
...music of the Transvaal. Sarie Marais, the song of a Boer girl waiting in the mealies (maize fields) by the old thorn tree for her lover to come back from fighting the English, should fall pleasantly on ears fond of U. S. Westerns and Spanish-American war ballads. Stellenbosch Boys is a rousing bumpkin march. The set's three discs provide other good discoveries, among them Brandy, Leave Me Alone...
Smuts was born (1870) a British subject, because his father's farm happened to be in British territory (Cape of Good Hope), but he was an out-&-out Boer. A solemnly earnest, religious youth, he worked to such good purpose at college in Stellenbosch that he won a scholarship to Cambridge. Back in Capetown after graduation he hung out his shingle as a lawyer. Empire-building Cecil Rhodes had his eye on Smuts, intended to make him one of his young men. And Smuts, believing in Rhodes's dream of a united South Africa, was eager to follow...
...Until, now, the most enlightening work on Keats has been the scholarly Life of Sidney Colvin; the stupidest, an interpretation of the poet by Prof. H. Clement Notcutt of Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Other famed men of letters who have tried unsuccessfully to write the truth about Keats are: Matthew Arnold, Algernon Swinburne, James Russell Lowell, Stephen Brooke, the Earl of Belfast, Lord Houghton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey. In 1853, Keats was included in The Lives of the Illustrious; in 1857, he achieved the severe immortality of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...