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Currently director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Oppenheimer graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1926 after three years of study. He recalls the college as an intellectual paradise. "I loved it," he said later. "I took more courses than I was supposed to, lived in the stacks, just raided the place intellectually...
...always been a hard driver. His father, proprietor of a men's clothing store in Minneapolis, went broke during the Depression, and when the time came for Orville to go to the University of Minnesota, he had to work his way. He made Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, played football, served on the debating team and got elected president of the university council. After graduation, he went to law school...
...trick of gathering moss. As a rebel of the '30s, Mark's mainstream Marxism made his campus career; but Clem ("an Infantile Leftist") was the type who went to jail. Now Mark has burgeoned in his bogus beard as a TV-forum type, a voice of religiosity cum psychoanalytical fashion. Clem sneers at him as "Temple B'nai Kierkegaard...
...note: The CRIMSON'S 1906 crystal ball told us that Mr. Price would be graduated magna cum laude the following year; would later write, among many other books, "The Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead" and serve for many years as a member of the Overseers' Committee to visit the Department of Philosophy; and would in 1964 complete fifty years as editorialist for the Boston Globe and fifty-seven years as a Boston journalist...
...Present-Cum-Hint. 5BX enthusiasts distribute the R.C.A.F. pamphlets with missionary zeal worthy of the Gideon Bible Society. Company executives find them in their in boxes-a kind of corporate present-cum-hint. U.S. Steel ordered some; Young & Rubicam, the advertising agency, bought 2,500 copies; the entire Cleveland Symphony Orchestra is doing the exercises, as is the Swope Ridge Home for the Aged in Kansas City...