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Werner W. Jaeger, University Professor, Emeritus, whose great work, Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, was a landmark in classical studies, died at the age of 73 yesterday morning in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, following injury suffered in a fall. Until his death, Jaeger continued to serve the University as director of the Institute of Classical Studies...
Just two weeks ago, Jaeger received the first copy of his latest work, "Early Christianity and Greek Paideia," from the Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press. This study, dealing with the vast historical process by which Christianity was Hellenized and Hellenic civilization became Christianized," was used on the Carl Newell Jackson Lectures he delivered here last fall...
...Jaeger continued his research in his Widener Library study until a short time before his death. He was nearing completion of a 20-year labor on an edition Gregory of Nyssa, one of the greatest the Greek church fathers, who lived the fourth century...
Those awarded the prizes were Clarence I. Lewis '06, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus; Werner W. Jaeger, University Professor, Emeritus; and Perry G. E. Miller, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature...
...hour briefing; veteran New York Times Correspondent Tillman Durdin conducted a long bull session on Red China. Equally educating were the solitary strolls that many took through teeming Asian slums, a revelation to youngsters whose lives have been confined to comely U.S. suburbs. If education means widening perception, Teacher Jaeger is on to something. Muses Student Dave Newby, son of a Cleveland sales manager: "This whole trip has opened my eyes to things all around me at home that I've never really seen or thought about...