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Physicist Oppenheimer, who reads eight languages including Sanskrit, will be the Institute for Advanced Study's third director (his predecessors: Abraham Flexner and Frank Aydelotte). Oppy favors porkpie hats and good horses. During the war he and his wife traveled by horseback from their Pecos Valley ranch to Los Alamos, to the considerable mortification of a tenderfoot FBI agent who had to ride along. Oppy's pet peeve: anybody who underestimates the Bomb ("Its limitations? The limitations lie in the fact that you don't want to be on the receiving...
...language have written about yoga. Several of them have even sweetened their message with some of their best sex-novel tricks. But despite the literary followers of Indian philosophy -Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, John (Voice of the Turtle) Van Druten and Gerald Heard-yoga is still as mystifying as Sanskrit to the average American...
...lectures on subjects such as "The use of the comma by Lessing"-Franz had progressed so far into the abstract that the philosophy of Immanuel Kant appeared to him to be "escape literature." Suicide was the only logical next step. With the aid of a world-weary student of Sanskrit, young Schoenberner plotted a chain of thought of such intellectual intensity that it "would . . . dissolve even the body ... by pure force of thinking." When his body remained undissolved, Schoenberner decided to surrender to the "irrational force" of staying alive...
Prior to its use as a dormitory this fall, Kirkland, built in 1912, was introduced to the House system in 1931, The first House Master was Edward A. Whitney '17, who held the position until 1935. His successor, Walter E. Clark '03, Wales Professor of Sanskrit, who has held the post from that date, will new return to his other academic duties...
Thomas Jefferson felt that education's prime responsibility was to discover the gifted student and train him for leadership in his special field (the versatile sage of Monticello never dreamed that specialization in stenography would one day seem more desirable than Sanskrit). Andrew Jackson's philosophy, on the contrary, clearly calls for education to concentrate on raising the level of the mass...