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Last fall Cora Sutherland became too sick to teach and took a leave of absence. Her Christian Science practitioner certified that she was suffering from a "lung congestion aggravated by activity." And when her salary stopped, he cut his fees for treatment (prayer and readings from the works of Mary Baker Eddy) from $62 to $25 a month. Last March Teacher Sutherland's brother finally insisted that she go to a hospital. The day after she was admitted, Cora Sutherland, 55, died of tuberculosis. The coroner's report showed that she had probably had TB in active form...
...three school districts left with any segregation. In such border-zone cities as Cincinnati and Evansville, Ind., the transition is going smoothly, and in Tucson, Ariz, it has been complete. "The Tucson school board," says Ashmore, "went the whole way from the beginning; a call for white volunteers to teach in the mixed schools produced twice the necessary number, and a Negro principal was accepted without protest by a mixed teaching staff . . . The records show that only about 15 pupils out of a total of over 20,000 were withdrawn from the public schools in protest against integration...
During the last war, few people at Harvard had as much right to be confused as Leigh Hoadley, master of Leverett House and professor of Zoology. "Grinding out pre-meds," he had to teach an army course, a navy-civilian course, and a double-time navy course--all beginning at different times of the year. Although he claims he is not sure whether he gave the right lectures to the right classes, the chances are good that Hoadley was on schedule, for the precision of the scientist underlies his easy-going manner...
Within educational borders, however, the Government should give the foundations control over their own policies. For in trying to ensure that universities teach only the "ancient traditions" of the country the Reece Committee is bound to violate one: that of the freedom to uncover fresh ideas...
...results passed on to College undergraduates in informal lectures by the older members. Almost every year a Junior Fellow gives a series of talks for the Lowell Institute. Last year, one lectured on mathematics to the philosophy club. And, of greater interest to the University, many go on to teach here. Of the first group of Fellows, three: Garrett Birkhoff, Willard Quinc, and B. F. Skinner, have become Professors at Harvard. Since then a steady stream of members has enriched the faculty. Presently, twenty-five--around one quarter of the total number of Fellows--teach here in one capacity...