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...City Council of Fredericksburg, Va. decided that the new abbreviated street signs reading "Jeff Davis Boulevard" were both confusing and improper. People might think they meant Hobo King Jeff Davis instead of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, the Council ruled. It ordered bigger signs to carry the full name "with all the dignity that great man decerves...
Judge Learned Hand, recently retired after 42 years on the federal bench in New York, turned up before a Senate subcommittee to discuss ethics in Government. Did he not think the moral standards of the country were lower now than in the days of Thomas Jefferson? No, said the judge, he did not. Even in the face of the recent gambling, basketball and narcotics evidence? Perhaps, Judge Hand concluded, it seemed so because the prizes of immorality had increased...
...Everything Under the Sun." To Whitney Griswold, education is essentially "Madison and Jefferson talking to each other about everything under the sun." Today at Yale, scholars who have not talked to each other for years are beginning to communicate at last. The talk goes on in every classroom, in every corner of the campus. It is Yale's answer to the long, arid years of schizophrenia and specialization, to such critics as Abraham Flexner, who denounced U.S. education as "atomistic," and Robert Hutchins, who dubbed it "disunity, discord and disorder...
...show. Most of the work that made him famous reflects his first childhood choice of subject. The best-known Fraser sculpture of all: the Indianhead nickel, with a buffalo on the reverse, that the U.S. Treasury issued in 1913. Until it was superseded in 1939 by the Jefferson nickel, U.S. mints stamped out more than a billion of them...
...Among them: the statue of Theodore Roosevelt in front of the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, the General George S. Patton Jr. at West Point, the Thomas Jefferson in front of the State Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo., the allegorical figures flanking the steps of the Supreme Court and National Archives buildings and the Alexander Hamilton outside the Treasury Building in Washington...