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...bizarre subject matter" is cultural anthropology to which I was introduced by Malinowski in the 1930s. I met Jomo Kenyatta and read Facing Mt. Kenya. For the first time I learned about female circumcision. About 30 years later a paper on Female Infibulation was published in Studia ethnographica Upsaliensia XX, 1964, by Professor C.G. Widstand, director of the Scandinavian Africa Institute. His paper has what Dr. Counter calls "explicit photographic materials" on violence against women (and children). Dr. Counter should demand that this documentation be removed from the Harvard University Library and burned! To his outburst about my intelligence...
...same time I met Jomo Kenyatta, who let me read the papers which later were published in "Facing Mt. Kenya." For the first time I learned about female circumcision, but it was never my subject. About 30 years later a paper on Female Infibulation was published in Studia Ethnographica Upaliensia XX, 1964. The author is Professor C.G. Widstrand, Director of the Nordic Africa Institute. His well documented paper has what Dr. Counter calls "explicit photographic materials on violence against women(and children)"--Dr. Counter should demand that this documentation be removed from the Harvard University Library and burned...
...result of the trials for Commencement Parts, held in Sanders Theater on Thursday afternoon, the following speakers have been chosen: undergraduate parts--Latin: O. J. Todd '06, "At haec studia adulescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant", Cicero, Pro Arch.; English: A. E. Wood '06, "Faith, the Principle of Theological Reconstruction"; graduate part--G. T. Stephenson 2G., "Race Distinctions"; Law School part--A. Fox 3L., "Compensation for Accidental Injuries to Workingmen"; Medical School part--R. M. Green 4M., "Modern Ideals in Medicine." In addition to these there is likely to be a Divinity School part...
...Lawrie's "Rise and Early Constitution of Universities" are responsible. Your editorial approves of the statement that "until the fourteenth century there was no conscious founding of universities." This is an error; for thirteen of the twenty-six universities that existed in the year 1300 were consciously founded as studia generalia, the mediaeval conception of the modern university. Three of the eleven Italian universities that existed in the beginning of the fourteenth century were conscious foundations: Naples in 1224, Rome in 1244, Piacenza...
...seal of the Institute bears the motto, "Haec Studia Adolescentiam Alunt." Within the inscription there is an open scroll lying upon a book. In the background, an inkstand. Beneath the whole is the date of its foundation...
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