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Vassar College's C. (for Clara) Mildred Thompson, 66, starchy, pince-nezed dean (for 25 years), "map-minded" history professor, U.S. delegate to the conference that founded UNESCO, outspoken feminist, internationalist and F.D.R. Democrat. More respected than beloved, Atlanta-born Dean Thompson briskly shook hands on registration day with every new Vassar girl, thereafter kept a cold eye on grades and credits until commencement...
...last week, 41 nations had joined UNESCO, a body with an unwieldy name and an unwieldier problem: the crisis in world culture. Was UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) the right way to attack the problem? At Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week, English Art Critic Herbert Read asked that question. His answer...
...UNESCO, with all its highbrow conferences and talky committees, is missing the whole point, said Read. It seems to assume "that culture is a concrete material . . . bartered like butter or steel . . . already stored up in universities, libraries and museums, waiting, like corn in Egypt, to be distributed to the hungry masses...
According to UNESCO's constitution, "wars begin in the minds of men . . ." If so, said Read, "they are not to be prevented by card indexes and encyclopedias, by documentary films and the circulation of lecturers...
Afternoon and evening discussion groups covered various aspects of the general topic. "The World Student and UN." One 30-man panel considered "UNESCO and International Student Exchange" under the chairmanship of Bart J. Bok, professor of Astronomy and Associate Director of the Harvard College Directory (above...