Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's Judge Learned Hand, 87, completing his soth year on the federal bench. Traveling to Manhattan for the warm occasion were Chief Justice Earl Warren, U.S. Attorney General William Rogers, and a host of the nation's leading lawyers. Attorney General Rogers read a letter to Hand from the President of the U.S.: "You have stood for that excellence and temperament essential to the achievement of equal justice under law." Learned Hand found his reply in a Shakespearean sonnet to Time: "This I do vow, and this shall ever be;/I will be true, despite thy scythe...
...aeronautical engineering). Scott Carpenter went back into the Navy in 1949 to complete flight training interrupted at World War II's end, logged part of his 2,800 flight hours (300 in jets) in Korean combat (aerial mining, antisub patrols), then went through Navy Test Pilot School, General Line School, Air Intelligence School, became air intelligence officer of the carrier Hornet. He recalls: "When I was notified that I was being considered [for Mercury], I was at sea, and so my wife called Washington and volunteered...
...other speakers at the Law School Forum, the Rev. Douglas Horton, Dean of the Divinity School, and Julian V. Casserley, professor at the General Theological Seminary, agreed with Fr. Weigel that a real Christian union at this time is "extremely doubtful," but the panelists emphasized the desirability of such a union...
Four hundred and fifty students from 41 Massachusetts high schools will converge on Memorial Hall today for a mock United Nations Assembly sponsored by the Harvard United Nations Council. Paul E. Sigmund, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Quincy House, will preside over the General Assembly this afternoon...
...another Faculty attitude comes to mind, which appears unrelated to the present problem, but is still relevant to administration laissez-faire and general Yard apathy. One cannot help but note certain professors who appear rather bored with their large lecture courses, and House tutors who dislike to sit with students at dinner, a growing phenomenon noted by the Council Committee on the Houses. The sight of a tutor entering a dining hall, looking about in vain for his graduate friends, and proceeding to sit alone at an empty table, is a distressing one for the student who would like...