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Died. Christian Gauss, 73, author, teacher and scholar, who as a wise and witty dean (1925-45) and professor of languages and literature (1905-45) helped bring up three generations of Princeton men; of a heart attack; in Pennsylvania Station, Manhattan. At 20, he left his native Michigan for a fling in Paris as an aspiring poet, soon returned home to teach, was brought to Princeton by President Woodrow Wilson in 1905 as one of the university's first group of preceptors. A devoted student of the classics and a student of the noisy world outside the college gates...
...there was evidence of a more familiar brand of Wallace thinking. But in this report, wrote Wallace to Truman, "Mr. Vincent took no part . . . The strongest influence on me in preparing this final report . . . was my recollection of the analyses offered by our then Ambassador to China, Clarence E. Gauss, who later occupied one of the Republican places on the Export-Import Bank Board...
...first flush of success after the publication of This Side of Paradise, 23-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald returned to Princeton one day in 1920 for a banquet of former editors of the Nassau Lit. There, as usual, he began to drink, crowned Dean Christian Gauss with a laurel wreath and got so drunk that Cottage Club suspended him. "For seven years," wrote Fitzgerald later, "I didn't go to Princeton. Then a magazine asked me to write an article about it and when I started to write it, I found I really loved the place...
...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...
...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...