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Died. Dr. Kurt Hahn, 88, stern, idealistic German educator for whom moral and physical fitness were as important as academic prowess; in Hermannsburg, West Germany. Hahn's pedagogical plan called for cold showers, periods of silence, and exacting physical trials to harden bodies and toughen minds in the struggle for survival during perilous times. Hahn founded his first school in 1920 at Germany's Salem Castle. When the Nazis forced him to flee 13 years later, he went to the bleak northeast coast of Scotland and started the Gordonstoun School, where Britain's Princes Philip, Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 30, 1974 | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

...Harden H. Wiedmann of Adams House and Dallas, Texas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS MARSHALLS | 12/10/1974 | See Source »

...eight Harvard finalists are Bernard Bach of Winthrop House; Peter Carfagna of Eliot House; William Glass of Winthrop House; David Greeley of Eliot House; George Russell of Adams House; Lou Silver of Winthrop House; Harden Wiedemann of Adams House; and Robin Wynne of Quincy House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS MARSHALS | 11/27/1974 | See Source »

...falling back onto emotionalism and dwelling on the fact of suffering, Sontag fails in her political responsibility to make the situation clearer through a careful and concrete analysis. She injects into an already highly charged situation even more intense feelings, feelings which only harden the Israelis in their stubborn refusal to recognize the legitimate rights of the Palestinians, and thereby grant to them the very recognition as a people the Israelis demand from the already existing Arab states...

Author: By David R. Caploe, | Title: A Breach of Promise | 8/9/1974 | See Source »

...therefore have a temperature of 525° C. Hell, where the main topographical feature is a lake of molten brimstone (Revelation 21:8), could have a temperature of no more, no less, than 444.6° C. Above that temperature, the brimstone would vaporize; much below it, the lake would harden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Samplings for the Summer Reader | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

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