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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Czech undergraduates at historic Prague University were roused to fury last week as death came to their 22-year-old political martyr, Medical Student Jan Opletal. On Oct. 28 he went out to celebrate Czechoslovak "Independence Day" and was brought home with six revolver bullets in his body. Shouting "Long Live Freedom!" and "Away With the Murderers!" his mourners marched with torchlights to Vinohradsky Square...
Shown for the first time to the student body, Design for Education chronicles the Sarah Lawrence educational method typified in the four-year career of a candidate for an A.B. degree. "Joan," the heroine, is Marjory Erdman, a sophomore from Honolulu, who was allowed to count her cinemacting as school work. From the time she comes wide-eyed up the winding drive to the luxurious hilltop estate of the late founder William Van Duzer Lawrence in Bronxville, N. Y., until she self-consciously reads her senior "contract" (thesis) to critical classmates, Joan untiringly shows off Sarah Lawrence's progressivism...
...film photographs Joan under the watchful eye of her adviser, or "Don"; Joan on her self-chosen "project"; Joan earnestly typing in a barebacked bathing suit while her friends loll, sunbathe; Joan aiming a camera at two naked tots at the nursery school provided by Sarah Lawrence for students of Child Psychology, Personality Development, and The Family. Like Joan, other student actresses find their texts outside of books, in skeletons, housing projects, surgical operations. But the film skip's something that Sarah Lawrence girls spotted right off with a long, loud hoot: Joan never plays...
...joined Harvard in refusing to have Browder speak because he is "under indictment for a criminal offense against the laws of the United States," in a statement released on Wednesday night. Yesterday Dartmouth sided with the banners, when its Central Lecture Committee refused permission to a group of petitioning student organizations to use a lecture room for the Browder speech...
...Hanover, the Daily Dartmouth, undergraduate newspaper, announced that it had invited Browder to speak at a meeting sponsored by the paper as soon as the speakers committee's decision had been made public. The meeting can be held only if its is approved by the college's Committee on Student Organizations. The paper itself is controlled by a board composed of faculty and student members, with the latter in the majority...