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President Roosevelt started it by announcing what he considered shocking news: that 433,000 Class 1-A draft registrants had flunked the Army's literacy test (TIME, June 8). Nodding gravely, Columbia University's Professor Emeritus William C. Bagley, editor of School and Society, pronounced the figures "deplorable and discouraging." But the New York Times's silver-lined Columnist Simeon Strunsky observed that it was not as bad as all that: the Army had simply stiffened the literacy test, on the theory that "what is good enough for peacetime intelligence is not good enough for the Army...
...group includes Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, president of the University from 1910 to 1933; George Lyman Kittredge '82, until his death indisputably the world's authority on Shakespeare, Chaucer, and much else of English literature; Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, the "Copey" who has been literary father to many American writers; Alfred North Whitehead, the zrilliant mathematican and philosopher...
Adolph Meyer, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University...
...wave of frustration swept Lowell House after the Spring Formal Friday night resulting in the greatest library job since Snooperman ran rampant last spring. Not until night watchman Bill Graney received an anonymous phone call last evening was the picture of President-emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell, ordinarily over the fireplace, found in the closet of an unnamed tutor...
Yesterday, on the eve of his eighty-second birthday, Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, spoke solemnly of the war and its consequences on student life. "I wish it were over," mused Copey...