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Virgil to Eliot. For a historian such as Gibbon (1737-94), says Lewis, it was only natural to see the chasm between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. "The partial loss of ancient learning and its recovery at the Renaissance were for him both unique events . . . But we have lived to see the second death of ancient learning. In our time something which was once the possession of all educated men has shrunk to being the technical accomplishment of a few specialists . . . "To Gibbon the literary change from Virgil to Beowulf . . . would have seemed greater than...
Humpered by the partial loss of Captain Dexter Lewis, and by lack of coordination in the midfields, the Crimson played its sloppiest game of the season. Also, M.I.T. showed much improvement over early season scrimmages...
...morality is basic to Western ethics." The man shook his head sadly. "I don't know what the result will be." In the pages of a Stockholm paper, in a typical one of a series of interviews being printed under the title, Swedish Youth Speaks, I found a partial answer to my own question. "I have no real morals," said a boy of 19. "And I would never marry a girl because I had made her pregnant. Why should I give up my liberty for the sake of a child...
...straight: "Mr. Truman should have a talk with John Foster Dulles some time, if he can disentangle that gentleman from Mr. Corsi or get him out from under those Yalta papers. Or he should talk to Secretary of Defense Wilson. For while the editorial pages have been, as usual, partial to the Republican Administration, and some criticisms leveled at the Cabinet might very well have been aimed at the President, the surprising thing about the last two years in Washington is that the Washington reporters . . . have consistently been ahead of the Democratic leaders and politicians in digging out the facts...
...result of the partial capitulation of Schmitz, scholars in other universities must now decide whether to continue their boycott of the University of Washington. Regardless of individual decisions, those who were the first to make the boycott drove their point all the way to the president's office. Their Schmitz finally seems to have realized that the choice of a speaker is a professional problem better left...