Word: newman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major steps in the organization of a concrete College program of defense activity were revealed last night. First, Harry Newman Jr., '42, President of Brooks House, announced the establishment of an Emergency Defense Service Committee to act as a clearing house for requests for U.S.O. and citizen defense leaders and social service work connected with the national emergency...
...longer will the members of the graduating class have exclusive say as to who will be responsible for their Senior Album, since this year's Album Committee, headed by Harry Newman '42, last night established a competitive system whereby three successful contestants, appointed by the preceding Album Committee, will make up half of the normal executive board of six. The remainder will be elected by their classmates as usual...
...they sign up for Brooks House work, according to Harry Newman, Jr., President of P.B.H. Over 400 strong, they devote upwards of an hour a week doing social service work or working on the Undergraduate Faculty or Speakers Bureau...
...Like Newman, Rauschning seems to have been wounded into writing by one of those tactless remarks, to which people who have changed sides are vulnerable and rawly sensitive ("Your question is meant kindly. But may I reply that it has hurt me more than unjust and malevolent judgments from opponents. . . .")-And like Newman's, Rauschning's apologia is no apology at all, but a careful and courageous examination of his course, revealing great probity, political acumen, intellectual equilibrium...
...times ex-Senator Rauschning's book has a querulousness that suggests not Newman but the Roman ex-Consul Boethius (circa 480-524), who in The Consolation of Philosophy complained of his enemies while awaiting execution after his Rauschningesque failure to cooperate with the Barbarian Ostrogoths. He also has some of Boethius' wordiness, and indulges a nostalgic yearning for his farm and blooded heifers, which he lost when the Nazis raised a sign: Rauschning, traitor to the people, lives here...