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Many of the courses given under Classics headings are as close to general education as a student can come without being in the program itself, and such classes as Greek 10, given by Werner W. Jaeger, University Professor, and requiring no knowledge of Greek of Latin, are annually filled with students concentrating in everything from Economics to Bio-chemistry. Greek G and Latin G, both elementary courses, are larger at present than ever before, and are filled for the most part by non-Classics majors...
Like a boy with a penny before a candy counter, the nation's grocers cannot make up their minds about OPA. In Atlantic City, John E. Jaeger, president of the National Association of Retail Grocers, stood up before the Wholesale Grocers Convention. Said he ringingly: OPA must go, and at once...
Thus far only men have been designated for this honor: Werner W. Jaeger, Roscoe Pound, Ivor A. Richards and Sumner H. Slichter. According to President Conant, only lack of funds prevents containing expansion of the program
Pointing out that modern man has had "amazing technological progress," Jaeger adds that this civilization "had developed more than any other the power of self-destruction. "The humanities," he says, "give needed direction 'to our scientific advancement...
...Jaeger came to Harvard in 1936 from the University of Berlin, where he served as professor of Classics. Former member of the board of directors of the Archaelogical Institute of the German Roich, he is now director of the Harvard Institute for Classical Research...