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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Salute to Freedom churns thus for 615 pages. A life chronicle, it begins in 1902, ends last year. Between those dates Robin Stewart, son of a rich Australian ranchman, is a schoolboy, a university student, a ranch owner (75,000 acres), polo player, soldier, husband of an older woman who nags him and whom he drives insane, father of one illegitimate and two legitimate children, lover of one woman who loves him for himself, another who loves him for herself, another who loves him in spite of herself. A failure as a rancher, he becomes a Sydney intellectual, a magazine...
...past month, various members of the Freshman and Sophomore class have received curious little postcards which enquire politely "whether the recipient is interested in working with foreign students." A start has been made in resurrecting the almost defunct Brooks House Foreign Student Committee, but there is a definite need for some specific program which will care for the hundred foreign students who annually arrive in Cambridge relatively un-befriended...
With the added burden of the Refugee students, it is not too soon for Brooks House to begin planning for next year. Ideally the members of the Foreign Student Committee should be on hand several days before registration to help the newcomers find rooms and to advise them on such routine matters as where to eat, where to deposit their funds, and how to find their way about the Square. Since a majority of the foreign students take graduate courses, men in each of the graduate schools should be enlisted to help, and the support of the deans...
Other speakers included Thomas H. Eliot '28 regional administrator of the wage and hours act; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; Ernest J. Simmons, assistant professor of English, representing the Cambridge Union of University Teachers; Zechariah Chafee, of the Law School; William N. Chambers '39, representing the Student Union; and C. Fayette Taylor, professor at Tech...
...currently vying with each other in their loud huzzahs for extra-curricular activities as a vital part of an education. Official Harvard recognizes them in its scholarship awards and in various other honors. The undergraduate body recognizes them by common respect for participants. In choosing his activity, each student must be guided by his own interest and capabilities. But the Crimson likes to feel that it shelters under its skirts such a variety of activities that it can satisfy the bent of almost everyone...