Word: gauss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel sure that neither Michelangelo nor Mozart, neither Newton nor Hume nor Gauss nor Einstein gave a conscious thought to social consequences while they were engaged in their labors...
...history of the imposse begins in 1940, when Dean Gauss created an 18th club to absorb the 10 percent that wasn't making the grade at the time. Gateway, as it turned out, wasn't such a bad club after all, and for two years, until the first war class of 1942, virtually 100 percent of the college were clubmen...
...Dean Gauss left during the war. Returning students were mixed up in potpourri of various classes following the war, and few felt like spending the valuable time in working out what to do with 10 percent. Gateway's clubhouse had been taken over for some temporary housing, and before anyone realized it, there were only 17 clubs again. The result was over-crowding, and generally un-luxurious condition in the clubs through the fall...
...Headed by Harvard's emeritus Ralph Barton Perry, and including Princeton's emeritus Christian Gauss, Columbia's Henry Steele Commager, Henry Seidel Canby, 100-odd others. *In 1944 he campaigned unsuccessfully for state senator (his strategy: "Mostly to keep my trap shut...
Recommended reading in the 1918 S.A.T.C. at Princeton was Why We Went to War, a quickie book in which German-descended Gauss prophesied that the Germans would never have a revolution-three months before they...