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...show that madness may breed genius, the neurologists, headed by Dr. Abraham Myerson of Boston, cited the following admired men, more or less mad children of more or less mad parents: Hans Christian Andersen, Balzac, Beethoven, Bonaparte, Byron, Frederick the Great, Michelangelo, Newton, Poe, Swedenborg, Swift, Tolstoy...
...from first hand study of the classic authors, whose books have "the premanent truths and the common elements of men". Herein lies the danger of falling off Scylla into Charybdis. The exclusive use of original writings can be just as "degrading" as reliance on corrupt text-books. For example Newton's "Principia" and Marx's "Das Kapital" are excessively difficult to understand and they are crammed with irrelevancies and theories now known to be wrong. It is as waste of time and effort to plunge through such morasses unaided. Commentaries and lectures which show the relation between events...
...University of Alabama trustees, searching for a new president to succeed retiring George Hutcheson Denny, last year wrote to Newton Diehl Baker for advice. Replied the onetime Secretary of War: "If your Board could find in Birmingham or elsewhere in Alabama, a lawyer of about 40, of known scholarship, who was willing to begin a new career. . . ." Preparing last week to take up his duties as Alabama's President Jan. 1, was just such a man, baldish, scholarly Lawyer Richard Clarke Foster, 41, of Tuscaloosa, fourth generation Alabama alumnus...
...Buck") Duke, who was permitted to rename it Duke University for $17,000,000 in cash, also gave Duke an eventual 32% of the income from his Duke Endowment, whose $53,000,000 portfolio holds not only tobacco but electric-power and basic-warfare-chemicals securities. Late Son Benjamin Newton...
George Duane, former Newton High star, starts at left end, and Carrick Heiskell, of St. Marks opens the game at left guard. Peter Pratt, backfield luminary in Milton Academy's squad last year, starts today at right half...