Word: brandeises
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The varsity fencing team walloped an unimpressive Brandeis squad 18-9 yesterday evening at the IAB. The victory raised the Crimson's record to a formidable 9-2.
Horovitz taught playwriting at Brandeis University for two years following his resignation, from CCNY.
"He had an extraordinary faith in reason," Freund said, "some might say a pathetic faith in reason." But Brandeis was not sentimental, Freund said, adding, "He could be quite tough-minded."
Brandeis was fond of working early in the morning, Freund said, and he told of one clerk who, after working all night on a legal memo, slipped it under the door of Brandeis's apartment and felt Brandeis receive it. Brandeis was 75 at the time.
Freund then spoke of Brandeis, for whom he clerked after graduating from the Law School in 1932. Brandeis was a "moralist," Freund said, who "wrote opinions not to pierce the mind, but to instruct and overwhelm" with their weight.