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With the new president in their midst, the notables marched into the vaulted auditorium of Woolsey Hall and there, as Yalemen had done at the opening of the first college building, they sang an old metrical version of the 65th Psalm ("Thy praise alone, O Lord, doth reign / in Sion Thine own hill . . ."). Then Whitney Griswold, wearing around his neck the "president's collar" of 20 gold & silver links and a pendant medallion with the arms of Elihu Yale, received the charter, the seal, and the keys of the university "to cherish and defend." Finally, in the tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: To Cherish & Defend | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...Sion, my holy mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Psalms | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...that any pension plan would work perfectly and give workers absolute security in their old age. But since the soundness of all pension plans is based, in the last analysis, on the soundness of the U.S. economy, the expansion of Social Security and spread of soundly financed private pen sion plans would contribute a great deal toward making the economy stronger. They would help iron out the economic ups & downs by putting an enormous amount of buying power in the hands of the elderly 7.6% of the population. In securing for them the good sociological harvest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: OLD AGE PENSIONS | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...militarists are guilty. The great majority of Japs, including Premier Shidehara, believe in peace as a policy. But they still re gard Japan as the aggrieved party in the events leading up to the China war. They are not conscious of having adopted a national policy of aggres sion. Insofar as that policy existed, "some bad men were responsible." The idea that aggression is morally repre hensible does not yet appear to be part of Japanese ethics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: REPORT ON JAPAN | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

Golden Horseshoe. The man whose literary killing was of such inflaming interest to George F. Babbitt and Secretary of the Treasury Fred Vinson was in Man hattan last week. He had breezed in from his newly acquired 15-room Tudor man sion on Duluth's lake front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laureate of the Boobolsie | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

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