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...four students and only one professor-the president, John P. Carter. At one point Founder Dickey had to mortgage his house to save the school, and the struggling campus was continuously harassed by white raids from Maryland. It was not until the 40-year presidency of Princeton Man Isaac Rendall that Lincoln began to come into...
...tragedy of a modern Western man's education, in Dawson's estimate, is the gap in his learning and understanding between the classical ages and modern times, between Plato and Isaac Newton. The gap was created, he thinks, because medieval culture was so intertwined with religion. Since Renaissance humanists were tired of religion, and later European scholars thought that religion had no business anywhere outside the church, they all either ignored or missed the fact that the so-called Age of Faith was in fact the formative period of their own culture...
...Isaac Stern is one of the world's finest violinists. He has a big tone, an impressive technique and immense warmth. In Manhattan's Carnegie Hall one afternoon last week, Stern and his fiddle were in top form. Playing Beethoven's Violin Concerto with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under George Szell, Stern flaked warm, buttery tones off the violin with deep tenderness. As his bow drew the music from the strings, his body seemed to play its own accompaniment. Now he rose on his toes, now he shrugged with a phrase, now he twisted and bent...
Stern is a voluble, pudgy man with dimples and a cheery, puckish smile. His family brought him to the U.S. from Russia when he was only a year old, and not long after that, decided that he should be a violinist. In the course of time, Isaac dutifully obliged. Trained wholly in the U.S., he has become the special idol of a big following of younger American musicians; he feels that they have gained hope from his success...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). With Violinist Isaac Stern...