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...Birker, 72 (Alexander Dunlop ["Sandy"] Lindsay), for 25 years the learned master of Balliol College, Oxford; at Stoke-on-Trent, England. Fabian Socialist Lindsay, more noted as an educator than as a scholar, believed that English university education is too stereotyped (mere intellectual training produces only "the clever ass," he once said). In 1938, he stood unsuccessfully for Parliament as a "popular front," anti-Munich candidate from Oxford. His lectures on political theory after World War I prompted one hearer to say: "One had the sense of being present at an occasion." His son Michael, a graduate student in Canberra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 31, 1952 | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 3/6/1952 | See Source »

...spends most of his time talking kindly and giving lectures to people and begging them to do what they ought to do without being begged." The President has to take "bricks and stones and mud and things." Washington, he recalled, was labeled a dictator, Lincoln was called an ass and "old Cleveland . . . was thoroughly and roundly abused, but after he was out of office for about 15 years, they said they loved him for the enemies he had made ... I hope you will love me for that same reason, when the time comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Just Plain Harry | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

William M. Zeembik; Kirkland; House crew; Young Republican Club; Harvard Railroad Club, Vice President and Treasurer; House Committee; American Ass'n for Advancement of Science.Zsembik...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Record Number of Candidates Vies for Places | 2/28/1952 | See Source »

Robinson W. Schoonover; Dunster; Glee Club, Ass't Mgr and Secretary; University Choir; House Athletics; Ass't House Librarian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Record Number of Candidates Vies for Places | 2/28/1952 | See Source »

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