Word: northwesterner
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Flying Theologian. Dean Brauer's specialty: Puritanism, on which he is currently writing two books. A Midwesterner (from Fond du Lac, Wis.), Brauer studied at Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary in Minneapolis, took his Ph.D. in church history at F.T.F.. then spent two years at Union Theological teaching and serving as assistant to Theologian Paul Tillich. Puritan Expert Brauer sees a new kind of theological liberalism emerging at F.T.F. "It still asserts the creativeness and potentiality of the human spirit." he says, "but it is also much more aware of the limitations of the human spirit-for example...
...noblesse oblige and a love for the military. He had gone to grade school in England, graduated from Groton one form ahead of his archenemy-to-be, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. After Yale ('03) he moved into Chicago's swank Union Club and began law courses at Northwestern ("They had a lot of Yalemen on the Supreme Court about then, and we got the idea that it was the thing...
Some of the professors invading TV have gone nearly the entire way to pure entertainment. Rutgers' handsomely mustached Dr. Mason Gross plays straight man for Comic Herb Shriner on CBS's Two for the Money, and Northwestern's Bergen Evans stars as moderator on Du Mont's Down You Go. When the show moved this season from Chicago to Manhattan, Evans was fortunately on leave from Northwestern to work on a new book on slang. He will therefore not have to make his choice between teaching and TV until this fall, when his leave expires...
Currently, M.I.T.'s four-year curriculum requires students to take one humanities or social sciences course each semester. Amid his voluminous engineering schedule, however, the Tech student often regards his liberal arts course as a superfluous burden and gives it only secondary attention. Other engineering schools, notably those of Northwestern and Cornell, have five year program in effect; but they only grant single Bachelor of Science degrees. Outside educators also find that these schools waste early years on secondary school level material and thus later have to stress technical work rather than liberal arts...
Died. Colonel Calvin H. Goddard, 63, Army medical administrator, military historian and criminologist, famed for his work in ballistics and as the founder (in 1929) of the nation's first school of scientific crime detection at Northwestern University; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Colonel Goddard's ballistics techniques were widely disputed in 1927 when he presented evidence at the Sacco-Vanzetti trial that a bullet from Nicola Sacco's gun had killed South Braintree Payroll Guard Alessandro Berardelli...