Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, will address the Appleton Club on "The Social Implications of Religion" at 7 p.m. tonight in Adams House Upper Common Room. Cadbury is the chairman of the American Friends Service Committee, and the author of several books on the New Testament and early Christianity...
...Alfred Zimmern, professor of International Relations at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, and director of the Hartford Study Center for World Affairs, will speak at 3:30 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room. His subject will be "The Greeks, the Romans, and Ourselves...
Unfortunately, says Author Bell, modern education, of which the Aldriches are typical products, is less a cure for modern immaturity than a cause of it. This, he asserts, is not the age of the Common Man, but "the Century of the uneducated Common Man, of the Common Man unskilled in the art of living. Untaught in the wisdom of the race, he is competent neither to rule nor to be ruled ... blatantly vulgar, ill-mannered, boorish . . ." Instead of educating the Common Man to take his newly acquired place of leadership, U.S. schools and colleges have slung him a "mess...
...Johns Hopkins, surgeons examined their patient again. Their verdict: Joe is suffering from calcium deposits on the right heel, an affliction common enough among ballplayers but most often occurring in the elbow of a player's throwing arm (and then loosely referred to as "elbow chips"). The deposits are also akin to bursitis, in which excess calcium settles in sacks near the joints...
...friend, Franklin Roosevelt, the issue was the same -to destroy Hitler. Churchill's task, beyond preparing to meet the onslaught of the Germans, was not, as he tells it, to win Roosevelt over, but to help and hurry him in winning the U.S. public over to their common view...