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...Thomas took for his theme the merits of skiing; at the University of Delaware, Ralph W. Tyler, Stanford Behavioral Scientist, warned students against "outdoor sports and other leisure pursuits which provide self-gratification but have little constructive value to society." Poverty Planner Sargent Shriver called on Boston College and Wesleyan University seniors to aid the economically poor; University of Chicago Chancellor George Beadle urged his own graduates to help reduce "cultural poverty"; Senate Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey said, at the University of Massachusetts, that those who really need help are people who suffer racial discrimination...
PURITAN VILLAGE by Sumner Chilton Powell. 215 pages. Wesleyan...
...history this month startled many historians and most publishers simply because the winning book and its author were almost unknown. In fact, Sumner Chilton Powell's Puritan Village had almost gone unpublished: scholarly presses, including Harvard, had turned it down as "too specialized" before it was accepted by Wesleyan in Connecticut. With its $15 price tag, many bookstores had not bothered to stock it; hardly more than 1,000 copies had been sold; immediately after the Pulitzer announcement the book was almost unobtainable...
Training plans for the project workers have been altered since the project got underway. The site for the training of workers has been changed from Berea, Ky., to the Oxford, Ohio campus of Ohio Wesleyan University...
Author Powell's publisher, the Wesleyan University Press in Middletown, Conn., was not far behind him in gratitude. Although the university got into book publishing only seven years ago, it published another of this year's winners: At the End of the Open Road, a volume of verse by Louis Simpson...