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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prof. Wild's letter has clarified his own position and, hence, freed it from the misunderstanding which easily results from too quick a reading of Mr. Bartley's skillful but too subtly constructed article. Prof. Wilder has with consummate skill defended the idea of commitment, an idea which comes only with the experience of constrasting the quality of education received from committed and non-committed men. I suspect that, from a religious standpoint, Harvard students will have gained a far deeper insight into the significance of Protestant thought from Dr. Buttrick's courses than from all the objective lectures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Religion Letter | 4/17/1958 | See Source »

...defend Prof. Tillich from the misinterpretations which have appeared in a number of CRIMSON articles, Mr. Bartley's included, is unnecessary. Those who have heard him or read his works know that he shares with the other members of the faculty of the Divinity School and of the University at large an abiding loyalty to critical scholarship. The CRIMSON might do well in the future to set aside its objections to him on religious or philosophical grounds when it purports to take the measure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Religion Letter | 4/17/1958 | See Source »

...modulated and deep-throated voice. As "the most subtle" Serpent she slightly lingers with superb effect over the sibilants that Shaw carefully placed in her speeches. Tolan (Cain, and Zozim) brings real fire to the role of the world's first transgressor of the Fifth and Sixth Commandments. Moss (Prof. Barnabas, Accountant General, and the Elderly Gentleman) manages to make individual his three well-seasoned men. John Granger (Strephon) and Dorothy Whitney (Chloe) round out the cast...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Back to Methuselah | 8/1/1957 | See Source »

...Cherwell (The Rt. Hon. Frederick Alexander Lindemann), 71, Oxford Professor (1919-56) of Experimental Philosophy (physics), aeronautics and atomic-energy expert, Sir Winston Churchill's longtime confidant, troubleshooter, and wartime scientific adviser; in Oxford. A teetotaling, vegetarian bachelor ("The yolk of an egg is altogether too exciting"), "The Prof" devised a paper solution to the problem of tailspin during World War I, learned to fly in three weeks, triumphantly tested his theory in person. Summoned by Churchill early in World War II ("He could decipher signals from the experts on the far horizon, and explain to me in lucid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 15, 1957 | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...late Prof. Frank Abbott Magruder, whose textbook, American Government, was also banned in Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 13, 1957 | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

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