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...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...
Unable to travel during much of his life because of wars, Jaeger in recent summers has been going to Europe (in 1952 the classicist visited Greece for the first time); but otherwise he likes to retreat to New Hampshire or Vermont, where he can answer letters that have accumulated over the year and can get his only exercise by walking, very slowly and contemplatively, over the hilly countryside. "Of course the walks are getting shorter now," he notes...
...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...