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Former captains Webster Williams '35, (an intercollegiate champion), Donald Van Roosen '45, and Stephen Schneider '56 will sally forth "to chastise and dazzle the young," in epee, according to an invitation sent to fencing alumni. Giles Constable '50, master of North House and Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History, will try to repeat his two epee wins of last year...
...centers offer relatively small classes-Chicago, for example, has an average of twelve. Most cities provide counseling services by social workers and psychologists, prenatal and postnatal health advice. Washington's three-year-old Webster School goes so far as to provide special courses on "Values of Family Life," "Biological Aspects of Birth" and "Marriage and Its Economic Advantages...
...girls aided by the centers tend to develop a cooler and more mature attitude toward boys. Says one girl in Washington's Webster School: "I'll ask my boy friend what his plans are for the baby and me, and if he doesn't have any, it's goodbye, Roger." Whether or not a girl does marry the child's father-and relatively few do-she seems to emerge with a sounder sense of values, a conviction that the shame of unwed pregnancy is not the end of life. As one girl told center officials...
...spring of 1929, while Mao Tse-tung pushed the Red Army through village after dirty village in southern Kiangsi, a few Harvard seniors sat down in the genteel dining room of the Signet Society. John Fairbank, lanky and round-headed, was among them. He listened carefully to Charles Kingsley Webster, a visiting professor from Oxford, as the garrulous old man suggested that someone become interested in sorting out the Chinese documents pouring into the West...
...appreciated what Webster was saying. Historians of the day ignored modern China. Chiang Kai-shek was organizing a huge, bloody trap to "exterminate" thousands of Communists, but the first American journalists wouldn't arrive on the scene for another few years. Sometime between that luncheon and his arrival at Oxford months later as a Rhodes Scholar, Fairbank decided that Chinese history might be an interesting thing to try. He borrowed a book from the ex-missionary who taught Chinese at Oxford, sat down and began to memorize the characters. Thirty-eight years after that luncheon the ranking State Department East...