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Focuses on inauguration of a project to collect and edit the papers of Frederick Douglass at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Collaboration between the university and the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History; Goal of publishing a multi-volume edition of the speeches, letters and essays of Douglass.

Focuses on Chauncey Allen Goodrich, professor of rhetorics at New Haven, Connecticut-based Yale University. Educational background of Goodrich; Comparison of Goodrich's lectures on public speaking and rhetorics with that of other professors; Reasons for not publishing of rhetorical papers by Goodrich.

This is a first report on a study on the differences between "promising" and "problem" youth in the inner-city neighborhoods of New Haven, Connecticut. The sample was drawn from lists of lower class youth nominated by knowledgeable residents of these neighborhoods as "among the most promising" and as "headed for trouble." The several steps in the nominating and sampling procedure, which will be described later, were designed to provide sharply contrasting types. The definitions of behavior used in the nomination are specific to the depressed neighborhoods in which the youth live, giving maximum play to neighborhood judgments rather than legal ones. The usual pattern in delinquency studies is to rely on the criteria of law-enforcement and judicial agencies to identify delinquents. Because these criteria have certain deficiencies, an alternative and perhaps preferable approach is to use neighborhood criteria to identify "delinquents" and "nondelinquents" for study purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]