Hurja Tactics
Sirs:
I wish to congratulate you on your expose of the Fascist methods used by our present Administration to maintain political power in your article on Emil Hurja [TIME, March 2]. I had a taste of it in our local WPA and resent to the innermost core of my being this threat to personal freedom and self respect. And what could be more brazen than the frank acknowledgment and the making scientific of a spoils system that smells to high heaven. It is high time we wrested the fate of our citizens from the clutches of the politician and entrusted it to those trained in public administration. Such tactics as those used by Mr. Hurja turn people to the extreme right or to the extreme left.
MRS. PAUL MUELLER
Seattle, Wash.
Let Reader Mueller comfort herself with the thought that under authentic Fascism the spoils system is neither frank nor scientific. — ED.
Quiet Brother "Stu"
Sirs:
In TIME, March 9, under People there is a description of the versatility and prominence of Charles Evans Hughes 3rd at Brown University. At Amherst College, Henry Stuart Hughes, his brother and second grandson of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, has achieved fully as enviable a record, if not more so.
Tall and quiet like his brother, "Stu" is not a managing editor (of which there are two on the Brown Daily Herald) but is the Editor-in-Chief of the Amherst Student. Intellectually brilliant, last week he was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is president of his class this year, is one of the three members of his class on the Student Council, and was a member of the student committee of three formed to investigate the class cut system at Amherst. He was the only member of this committee to agree with the faculty committee on a change to an unlimited cut system. Freshman year he won the honored Porter Admission Prize for the highest mark on an examination in Latin, mathematics and English. At the end of his sophomore year he was awarded the honored John Sumner Runnels Prize for "zeal for knowledge and industry to attain it."
Too busy for varsity or fraternity athletics, Grandson Hughes devotes himself to a game of squash three times a week with Charles Seymour Whitman Jr., son of the ex-Governor of New York. He is a member of both junior honorary societies and like his brother, of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Minor activities include membership in the Christian Association Cabinet, International Relations Club, Liberal Club, Model League of Nations, Model Senate and the Debating Council. Other prizes include a debating prize and a Latin prize.
Recognized on the Amherst campus for his intellectual prowess, Hughes used to conduct discussions before a sizeable body of students in his room freshman year the night before history quizzes. Favorite pupil of popular, brilliant Professor Laurence B. Packard, head of Amherst's history department, under the inspiration of this man he has decided to take up the study of history as his life work. His brother is planning to take up architecture, leaving the field of law unexplored by this third generation of a family of great lawyers.
RICHARD S. ZEISLER
Amherst College
Amherst, Mass.
Sexeducation
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