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...Harvard Square each morning, back to Watertown each afternoon--might be surprised to learn that the friendly, diffident-looking man who travels with them every day is one of the greatest scholars in the world. Indeed, at times that fact seems to surprise and embarrass University Professor Werner Jaeger himself. Last month, for example, when the Classics Department held its first meeting of the year, the chairman congratulated Jaeger on the two high honors he had won over the summer and asked him to explain just what the awards were. Reluctantly, the Professor reported that, along with Thomas Mann...
Werner W. Jaeger, University Professor and director of the Institute for Classical Studies, has joined the ranks of the greatest German scholars of the last century by his recent honor of appointment to the order Four le Merits...
...Jaeger was elected at the same time as Thomas Mann shortly before the latter's death in August. Both expatriates, Jaguar and Mann joined 28 other living members in the exclusive society which represents West Germany's highest attainment in science and arts. It was founded during the reign of Frederick the Great...
Such parliamentary control, huffed the chancellor, was an infringement of the executive power. He threatened to ask the courts to declare the bill unconstitutional if passed, and demanded that the Bundestag back down. Jaeger would not budge. Having recently visited the U.S., he had seen how "the legislature has the right to determine the basic principles" of an army's functioning, and that was good enough for him. In West Germany's present climate, compounded of a reluctance to go back into uniform and a determination that no military caste shall ever dominate the country again, Jaeger found...
Good Grace. When Adenauer's men made a nose count of the Bundestag, they found that Jaeger could count on the votes of no coalition Deputies, as well as the big Socialist opposition, and had a clear majority. Seeing that he was beaten, Der Alte decided to retreat with good grace. He joined up in support of the Jaeger bills, and at week's end got his emergency army bill through, albeit cut to the Bundestag's pattern...