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...chain of command that formerly made decisions for him. But with the blessing of external freedom has come the impact of an over-severe self-judgment which has focused itself narrowly upon the accepted standards of academic success. So, for many, life at Harvard has come to mean a regimen of eating, sleeping, and studying...
...study under Father Stock a prisoner must pass a simple screening: prove that he was a seminarian before he was a soldier. A single interview suffices. Seminarians are excused from regular P.W. labor in the fields, live in separate quarters. But their regimen is strict. Rising at a 6 a.m. bell, they pray and meditate until mass at 6:45, held in a plain, wooden structure decorated with murals by their...
...West Pointers have made so dramatic an entrance or so notable an exit as First Captain Robert Woods. But most of what happened to Woody in the three-year interim was what happens to every cadet. He was rolled, ground, grooved and calibered into shape by the same basic regimen that West Point has followed for more than a century. This process for molding military youth was set up by one of the neglected great men of U.S. education, a graduate of West Point as well as of Dartmouth. His name was Sylvanus Thayer...
Said Jones: "President Truman could not have made a better appointment." The man who will now have many billions to spend was an artillery captain in the 32nd Division A.E.F. He is an eager reader, religiously reads four books a week. (Standard regimen: two biographies , one book of history, one novel.) Like many another of Harry Truman's Missouri friends, he plays a close game of poker. Unlike others he collects dimes (one of every U.S. issue) and pictures of airplanes (he considers them graceful...
...present Mrs. Hopkins is credited by his friends with slowing down his tempo considerably, putting him on a sane regimen, and keeping him from overwork. It was not always so. In the days immediately after Pearl Harbor, when Hopkins was working 18 hours a day, one of his male friends once counseled: "Cut it out, Harry, you'll kill yourself." Harry, who is no man to overlook a little quiet drama, looked up over his shell-rimmed glasses and replied: "Do you know a better...