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Opening up the profund mysteries of Newtonian physics or thermodynamics to an audience that once thought itself incapable of such heady stuff, LeCorbeiller tosses in Einstein, Euclid, Plato, or Aristotle wherever they are relevant--and often with a sudden thrust of refreshing Gallic humor...
...aiming at? Freedom? Yes. Higher standards? Yes. But we are ultimately aiming at feeding, clothing, housing, educating and providing better health conditions for 400,000,000." Said Gandhi: "If Hindus and Moslems must fight, let them be brave and fight it out amongst themselves." He was geometrically hopeful: "Euclid's line is one without breadth, but no one has been able to draw it and never will. All the same, it is only by keeping the ideal line in mind that we have made progress in geometry...
...German ship soon after Hitler came to power, he was summoned to a ceremony at which the new swastika emblem was raised in place of the republican flag. When an officer asked him to salute, he replied: "I would as soon salute that diagram as the first proposition of Euclid...
...York and Lowell House; Saul L. Sherman '47, of New York and McKinlock Hall; David M. H. Kern '47, of Exeter, New Hampshire, and Adams House; and Charles C. McArthur '46, of North Quincy and Lowell House. The September graduate is Wallace A. Mills '46, of Euclid, Ohio...
...find fault with their setting of the problems of education. I personally do not like their emphasis upon "tradition." If one chooses to be etymological and to cover by "tradition" whatever has been handed down from earlier ages, good. But I like to distinguish between the Golden Rule and Euclid on the one hand and such items as Cabinet responsibility on the other. The first two are discoveries of something of absolute and universal value. The last is a device belated in its formulation and likely to cumber the earth long after it has ceased to be useful...