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...suggestions to universities which receive them in stony silence. Actually, educators are capable of saying things that need listening to and the conclusions of last week's conference including Dean Emeritus Roscoe Pound-which met at Princeton, were bright, forthright, and in large measure need acting on. Their big, blunt theme is that the world's universities are "strongholds of nationalism," that, "so long as this is true, universities actually can unwittingly promote war," and that "they should have one responsibility above all-to take the lead in helping nations to understand each other, and in training young...
...boats are blunt-ended like the punts still popular on conservative British rivers. Forty-five feet long by four feet wide, they were built of four-inch, hewn-oak planks, laced together with yew-fiber ropes, the seams caulked with moss. They showed that the ancient Britons were seagoing (or at least river-going) long before the Romans discovered them...
...Shipping Administration's small vessels, he ran a fleet of hundreds of tugs, including those of private companies such as his own. His most brilliant feat was Operation Mulberry. The British had constructed two floating harbors, each the size of Dover. The 150 huge concrete caissons and 60 blunt-nosed ships (which formed the breakwater) were to be anchored off the Normandy beaches. But the problem of towing them across got so snarled up that Ed Moran was finally called in to straighten it out, was put in charge of the whole operation...
Died. Arthur Cayley Headlam, 84, Britain's blunt, white-maned Bishop of Gloucester (1923-45), who was largely responsible for bringing about intercommunion between the Church of England and Europe's "Old Catholics" (a sect formed in 1870 by Roman Catholics who refused to subscribe to the doctrine of papal infallibility), was famed as one of the foremost Anglican scholars of his generation; in Durham, England...
...Meaning of Meaning"; the now famous book on semantics. Ogden and Richards had found that many of even the most formidable intellects were forgetting an important thing-that the label or name of an object is not the object itself. Professor Richards shudders at so blunt and naive a formulation, and would rather put it that "the forms of language over-influence the forms of thought." Which meant that many philosophers were mistaking the word for the thing, communicating their meaning imperfectly, and in short often didn't know what the hell they were talking about. Ogden and Richards were...