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Educator Wriston, who stoutly denounced the "bullying of the intellectuals" during the white-hot heyday of McCarthyism, trained no fewer than five topnotch university presidents, including Harvard's Nathan Pusey and Wesleyan's Victor Butterfield. In his new book, Academic Procession (Columbia; $4), President-emeritus Wriston, now head of Columbia's American Assembly and the Council on Foreign Relations, pleads for a continuing faith in the ever-revolutionary ideals of U.S. democratic education. He also deplores some of the fancy new means that may be obscuring education's real ends. The fact that the word "curriculum...
Early Days. Born Oct. 23, 1895, son of a Swedish immigrant who stubbornly scratched an existence out of 80 South Dakota acres near Parker (pop. 1,148), Clinton Presba Anderson had made his way through his third year in college (Dakota Wesleyan, University of Michigan) by 1917. Then, after an Army doctor rejected him for officers' training camp upon finding a tubercular infection (Anderson has since suffered from diabetes, shingles in 1949, and a coronary in 1950), he went to New Mexico, spent nine months in a sanatorium, stayed on in the Southwest...
Weld and Bowditch, seeded first in the doubles competition, are the only varsity players among the top eight singles seeds. Weld is fourth, behind Yale's defending champion Don Dell, Wesleyan's Alan Roberts, and Amherst's Tom Richardson. Bowditch is ranked seventh, and Fred Vinton is placed among the second eight. Bill Wood, the varsity's fourth entrant, is unseeded...
...early sicknesses made him weak and shy. Unable to compete in any physical way, he threw himself into school-work with burning enthusiasm, getting top marks in all his subjects. Not eager to let him get too far away, his parents sent him to Iowa Wesleyan, a small college right in Mount Pleasant. There he quickly attracted the attention of Professor Thomas Poulter, a first-class physicist...
Racing on the Thames River, four Crimson yachtsmen will compete in another regatta tomorrow at Coast Guard. Co-skippers Dave Gill and Larry Snide-man will race against Boston University, Coast Guard, Holy Cross, MIT, Providence and Wesleyan...