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Died. John Frederick Seiberling, 73, son of the late Frank A. Seiberling, founder of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., who lived by the motto Dum vivimus vivamus ("While we're alive, let us live"), who rejected the business world to spend his life building a large private library and traveling; of cancer; in Akron, Ohio...
Marx has puffed his way through Webster in twelve years. Now, on the second time around, his favorite expression is Dum Vivimus, Vivamus, which can be freely translated as "Live It Up." He found the exhortation so appealing that he had it embroidered on a batch of silk neckties that he gives away. His newest favorite word is "charismatic," a theological adjective pertaining to one who has a divine endowment to carry on the work to which he was called. Understandably. Marx caused a sensation when he applied the word to Ike at a White House dinner before...
...early beginning and 164 years of tradition, Porcellian has always represented the final club to the non-clubbed world. Begun in an era when Cambridge was small, isolated, and arid in entertainment, the club provided a necessary social break in the scholastic routine. The Porcellian's motto Dum vivimus vivamus was typical of the early attitude of the members--no lofty mission, no serious purpose, just jovial pleasantry...
...group of convivial undergraduates, who were wont to dine on roast pig at Abel Moore's tavern, formed the Pig Club, met weekly for "that kind of enjoyment to be derived from eating and drinking." Later the club lengthened its name, adopted a Latin motto - Dum vivimus vivamus ("While we live, let's enjoy it") - and merged with a rival crowd called The Knights of the Square Table...
...pleasant memory of our stay there, and this surely will make up for many hardships. These are ample returns for becoming a trifle impractical by going through college. But for the time being I find, in the book before quoted, a consolation of the dum vivimus vivamus sort, which I offer as a comfort to any Senior who is sorrowing that he must so soon depart this collegiate life: "Happy Senior! enjoy these your halcyon days while you may; for great will be the fall from your pinnacle of glory, when after Commencement you go forth into the great world...