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Last week, after four months of combing through the alphabet, the trustees announced that they had stopped at the letter K. The man they picked, out of 641 candidates proposed: Lawrence Alpheus Kimpton, 40, a University of Chicago vice president and a big, shaggy, good-humored man whom Hutchins once referred to as "240 pounds and all sweetheart...
...servants, friends and relatives; cleared the way at last to publishing his "intellectual love" letters to Mrs. Patrick Campbell; forbade any monument to him which contained "a cross or other instrument of torture or blood sacrifice"; directed that the bulk of the estate be used to promote his "simplified" alphabet...
...long training Bartel began three decades ago, has started by giving religious instruction to children. In the sentence, "Suffer the little children to come unto me," he shows "suffer" by a natural soothing gesture, "the" with the little finger of the right hand as expressed in the deaf-mute alphabet, "little children" by a baby-rocking gesture and "come unto me" by pointing to himself...
Pupils learned their first geography and geology on long walks at Pestalozzi's side. They learned their numbers by counting stones, their letters from alphabet blocks, their fractions from squares cut up into halves, thirds and quarters. "Let [the pupil] see for himself, hear, find out, fall, pick himself up, make mistakes," said Pestalozzi. "What he can do for himself, let him do; let him be always occupied, always active...
When he was 35, Franz Rosenzweig fell ill of a creeping paralysis which eventually robbed him even of the power to speak and left him only an uncertain power of movement in his right thumb. Yet, by indicating with his thumb the letters of the alphabet, he was able to complete a body of theological work that has made him one of the most important figures in modern Jewish theology. In 1929, before he was 43, Franz Rosenzweig died...