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...only two of a host of hyper-brilliant physicists and mathematicians who read like a "Who's Who in Physics and Mathematics."' On its professional staff in recent years have been Armond Bore Albert Einstein, Kurt Godel, Deane Montgomery, Marston Morse, Oppenheimer, Abraham Pais, Oswald Veblen, John von Neuman, Bengt Stromgren, Hassler Whitney, Herman Weyl, and Yang...

Author: By Fredrick W. Byron jr., | Title: The Institute: Frontier of Learning | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

Livingston Hall, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law, and Eugene V. Rostow, Dean of the Yale Law School, have agreed to speak May 3 "giving a candid and objective description of their respective law schools and a constructively critical analysis of the other," club president Robert H. Neuman '58 announced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hall to Debate With Yale Dean of Law | 4/14/1956 | See Source »

According to president Robert H. Neuman '58, the Harvard Pre-Law Society, the first organization of its kind in the College, will attempt to clarify for the potential law student the situation in law school and in the profession itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Organization For Pre-Law Study To Ask for Charter | 12/20/1955 | See Source »

...Best Reply. One ambitious project has been brewing since 1933, when Adolf Hitler burned the books. "The best reply," said Neuman, "would be to restore some of the great works that have been virtually lost to the Jewish people." He gathered a team of 20 scholars, got a grant from Manhattan's Littauer Foundation, and began translating into English the Apocrypha and the Pseudepigrapha, a series of ancient noncanonical writings closely connected to the Bible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Golden Age | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...volumes have already been published and three more are on the way. Dr. Neuman reckons that he will be 70 before all 30 volumes are finished, but he plans no rest. He envisions still another project: a monumental history of the Jewish people from earliest times. This project, says Neuman, would take at least 20 years and be beyond his life span. "It is not thy duty," says the grey-haired scholar, quoting from the Jewish prayer book,* "to complete the work, but neither art thou free to desist from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Golden Age | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

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