Word: jaeger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Professorship, is as yet unfilled. The retirements of Nobel prize physicist P. W. Bridgman '04 and of lawyer Zechariah Chafee, Jr. leaves two more chairs vacant. Holding the five remaining chairs are theologian Paul Tillich, economist Sumner H. Slichter, Middle East authority Sir Hamilton A.R. Gibb, classicist Werner W. Jaeger, and language expert I.A. Richards
...messages each day are carried by foot to dormitory rooms throughout the Yard; in these rooms, attractively outfitted with modern furniture, including television sets, students may receive guests from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. seven days a week; and at desks in these rooms sit Mrs. Clouser and Miss Jaeger, who have all sorts of information about such things as nearby beaches, weekend carpools, and laundry service (basement, middle entry of Grays, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. at 25 cents a throw...
Also, Lynne P. Hofer, History and Literature; Therese Jaeger, History and Literature; Maeda Jurkowitz, Social Relations; Mary E. Marshall, History and Literature; Margaret V. Means, English; Susan A. Morford, Social Relations; Paula Omansky, Government; Joan Shuman, History; Beverly F. Stewart, English; Elizabeth A. Williams, Classics and related literatures...
...collapse [of Fifth Century Athens] was only the outward and visible sign of the collapse of the individual character ... whose values are rotten with individualism," said Werner Jaeger in Paideia. This was caused by the failure of Homeric religion to overcome the centrifugal force of material success...
...excitement is just as great, however--on both the intellectual and the personal level--for the student who encounters Jaeger for the first time. Talking with anyone who has wandered into his cluttered office, the benign professor with the high-domed forehead and wispy gray hair inevitably begins to discuss his own life, work, and thoughts. In another academician this topic would be boring, but something is different as Jaeger talks on in his slow, clear English--describing, say, the thrill of puzzling for days over the meaning of a certain word in an ancient text, and then, suddenly, getting...