Word: layman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expensive ($1,400), Episcopal St. Paul's School, which is strong on hockey and respectability, has been headed by a churchman ever since its founding in 1855. Last week the trustees of the Concord (N.H.) prep school broke precedent by picking a layman to succeed the Right Rev. Norman B. Nash, now Bishop of Massachusetts. The new (and sixth) rector: Henry Crocker Kittredge, 57, historian of Cape Cod, self-styled spare-time beachcomber, son of Harvard's late, great Shakespearean Scholar George Lyman ("Kitty") Kittredge. To St. Paul's the choice was scarcely a surprise. Kittredge...
...Yale Law School had surprised the legal priesthood by employing laymen to help train its lawyers. First, in 1928, Yale made Economist Walton Hamilton* a full law professor, without benefit of LL.B. Then it signed on Political Scientist Harold Lasswell. Last week Hamilton and Lasswell made room for another layman: Philosopher F. S. C. Northrop, author of The Meeting of East and West (TIME, Aug. 12). Northrop, who has been teaching philosophy at Yale College since 1923, will now teach jurisprudence at the Law School...
When doctors first announced (in 1943) that penicillin would remove all signs of early syphilis in eight days, many a layman concluded that penicillin was a sure syphilis cure. But syphilologists, knowing the wily ways of the spirochete, were careful to use the word "cure" only in cautious quotation marks...
...first atomic bomb released almost as many atom books as neutrons. Few were any good. But a recent book, Explaining the Atom, by Professor Selig Hecht of Columbia University (Viking Press, $2.75) actually comes close to its claim of making "the atom and its energy comprehensible to the intelligent layman...
They also heard from a Baptist layman who had been to Russia, but who was far cagier in his report than Traveler Newton had been. G.O.P. White House-hunter Harold E. Stassen voiced his "sober optimism" that the U.S. could win the peace by remaining strong and being wise, and hoped that Americans "will never surren er to the insidious whisper of the inevitability of war." He also had something to say about the convention's business: "I wish to state simply and directly that I do not agree with" two of the convention's resolutions...