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...Socratic" is just one description; exasperated law students being what they are, others are unprintable. Yet most lawyers who have studied under Seavey would probably agree with Frank Pace, Jr., former Army Secretary, who calls the professor's questions "infuriating" but adds that they "caused us to ponder our own solutions and eventually to reach others more sound." Roscoe Pound places Seavey "among the outstanding teachers in the history of the Harvard Law School." Such tributes are particularly appropriate now, incidentally, for Professor Seavey is retiring this June after 50 years of teaching...
...dislocated shoulder sustained last week in the Renn match has permanently sidelined lightweight Tatsuo Aroma, who will be replaced by lanky sophomore Bob McLaughlin. Dick Hook, junior 157-ponder, in out for the season with a broken wrist. Letterman Frank Baker, also 157 pounds, is not expected to return until after mid-years...
During his busy week of work and play in Augusta, Ga. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), President Eisenhower also found time to ponder U.S. policy toward Latin America. From the holiday White House came news of three significant plans. ¶ Next week, in his Foreign Economic Policy Message, the President will ask Congress to establish the International Finance Corp. (TIME, Nov. 22) promised by Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey at November's economic conference in Rio. Proposed as a $100 million supplement to the World Bank, IFC would lend to private enterprisers rather than governments. The President will also...
...Smoking," the scientist said, "is the leading important feature that the vast majority of the lung cancer patients have in common. We owe it to ourselves," he continued, "to ponder carefully whether as individuals we wish to smoke cigarettes and run the risk of cancer...
Doubtless your Nov. 1 article on "The Uneasy Scientists" will worry many a pulp-headed liberal. These sacred beings are being shackled, muzzled, harassed, etc. by military bureaucrats, politicians, officials, etc. Before falling suckers to this woolly-headed whine about thought control, let us all ponder an item in the Education section of your same issue, which reveals that a sample of 15 U.S. scientists showed two-thirds ignorant of the most elementary history and illiterate in philosophy. It is bad enough that scientists presenting themselves for a Doctorate of Philosophy should be crassly unaware of the meanest elements...