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Walter J. Bate '39, professor of English, received the Christian Gauss Prize of $1000 late last week for his book, The Achievement of Samuel Johnson. The award was given by Phi Beta Kappa...
...Groove Over. As Author Hogben approaches modern times, he takes his readers painlessly through the discoveries of Galileo and Newton, through Descartes to Karl Gauss. Just as painlessly, he introduces them to algebra, the laws of acceleration, the concepts of mass and weight, binary numbers, and the graph plottings of the parabola and the ellipse. But his major accomplishment will be to give his readers the notion of mathematics as a major part of their heritage...
Decline & Fall. Before his death, he turned the helm over to Arthur Gauss, who had been with the company for eleven years, with instructions to keep the yard going. But Mrs. Nevins, who inherited all the company's stock, now finds that the cost would be too much. Gauss figures that the company's break-even point is $900,000 a year, and it is grossing less than $800,000, mostly because of the European competition. Says Gauss: "They pay a first-class mechanic 60? an hour, against $2.50 here. As a result, they can deliver a boat...
Meanwhile Dean Gauss created an 18th club to absorb the 10 percent that weren't making the grade at the time. Gateway turned out to be not such a bad club after all, and until the first war class of 1942 almost 100 percent of the college were clubmen...
Here's to Gauss...