Word: gauss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princeton's Christian Gauss, 69, who started out to be a poet and ended as a famed, judiciously quizzical dean, emerged from retirement last week to wing a few cloth-yard shafts at the target of U.S. education. The onlookers at Princeton-about 75 secondary-schoolmen -had to admit that he hit the target with some smacking bull's-eyes. Said Dean Gauss...
...week's end the Council still had a respectable list. It included: Christian Gauss, dean emeritus of Princeton; Mrs. Thomas W. Lament, wife of the board chairman of J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc.; Gerard Swope, honorary president of General Electric; the Most Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...Princeton's Christian Gauss, 68, judicious, quizzical, pince-nezed professor of modern languages, longtime Dean of the College. Gauss and three others, all retiring now, are the last of President Woodrow Wilson's 47 preceptors, appointed in 1905. Another: Edward Samuel Corwin, 68, professor of jurisprudence, historian of the Constitution and the Court, vigorous defender of Roosevelt's 1937 court-packing plan...
Christian Gauss, 67, noted Princeton nourisher of literary talent (F. Scott Fitzgerald's, Edmund Wilson's), 20-year Dean of the College till his retirement last October, was redecanized. His new post, honorary and created especially for him: Dean of Alumni...
...Gauss resigned soon after Hurley's arrival. But Vincent went on and upward, became-by Byrnes's appointment-Far Eastern chief. Ambassador Hurley began to receive instructions which he considered detrimental to his mission and at variance with U.S. policy as he understood...