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President Robert Hutchins of the Uni versity of Chicago made a radio speech against the bill. He was convinced that the country was headed for war. And, said he: "We are morally and intellectually unprepared to execute the moral mission to which the President calls us." He saw the duty of the U. S. : to "show the world a nation clear in purpose, united in action, and sacrificial in spirit. The influence of that example upon suffering humanity everywhere will be more power ful than the combined armies of the Axis." The familiar cries of defeatist, appeaser, isolationist, rose shrilly...
...Yorkese, which New York Uni versity phoneticians have discovered to be the least popular type of U. S. speech (TIME, March 11), is the easiest for Dr. Smith to guess. He has identified Bronxites and Brooklynites at the drop of an r, located Manhattanites within a few blocks of their homes. Once he spotted the influence of a French school in a naturalized American woman whose accent sounded normally German to ordinary listeners. Dr. Smith has learned his trade from books and phonograph records, has more difficulty with the pronunciations of his native Baltimore than with New Yorkese...
Aldrich Durant, Business Manager of the University, who is in charge of the circulation of printed materials in Uni- versity buildings, denied that he had taken any disciplinary action and repeated his statement that if the Communists wish to distribute leaflets, "they should do it during the day and not in the early hours of the morning...
...valuable additions to mathematical theory, and they did prove that there are no solutions to the Fermat equation in certain cases, with values of n up to 7,000. But they did not prove that there are no solutions in all cases, with any value of n. At the Uni versity of Gottingen in 1907 the Wolfs-kehl prize of 100,000 marks was established, to reward anyone who could offer such proof...
...McGovern sometimes fright ens Chicago moppets by walking along the city streets in a Persian shepherd's coat and peaked Astrakhan hat. He goes to tea in a frock coat, striped trousers, blue shirt and yellow shoes, wears the same shoes with tails to the opera. Because the uni versity forbids smoking in classrooms, he holds his seminars at home, where he can smoke his big-bowled, curved-stem pipe...