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James Laughlin is not alone in his quest for the purging of our language. At the end of his selection of the last year's best books, Clifton Fadiman made a plea to young authors that they write with more care towards the use of words. Wilson Follett complained that the definition of a sentence as "a complete thought expressed in words" had become obsolete. The economist, Stuart Chase, in a recent provocative article, urged that the way to make language a better vehicle for ideas was to pursue the science of semantics, which teaches that the two main sins...
Died. William Johnson Harahan, twice president of Chesapeake & Ohio R. R., eight days before his 70th birthday; of septicemia; in Clifton Forge, Va. His father, James Theodore Harahan, onetime president of Illinois Central R. R., was killed in a railroad wreck...
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...Flickinger, William D. McSweeney, Dwight D. Taylor, Jr., John P. Schwede, Peter G. Zouck, Ray C. Holt, Horace J. Bresler, Robert L. Wright, James I. Rothschild, Clifton E. Helman, Ralph Hornblower, Jr., W. Arthur Betz, William E. McDonald, Alan W. Petit, and Einor C. Palm...
...other six men that will represent the Varsity this afternoon are George P. Gardner '39; Alexander C. Northrop '38; Francis M. Rivinus, Jr. '38; Frank L. Porter, Jr. '40; Clifton D. Stevens '40; and Edmund C. Childs...