Word: wechsler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...panoramic introduction Mr. Wechsler draws a concise picture of the American campus as it was beset first by war and then by an almost equally damaging peace and prosperity. He brings into bold relief the wholesale prostitution of the colleges first for the war and then for the peace which denied the glory of that war. He shows us professorial chairs being stuffed with industrial moneys, unorthodox belief being roughly wiped out by college officials under pressure from above. The whole era of Mencken, Babbitt, the hip flask and the Charleston is seen with as great a clarity as that...
When he moves to describe "The Revolt" Mr. Wechsler is bucking heavier odds but his analysis, is generally credible. There is a tendency to draw lines a bit too sharply and to exaggerate student playfulness into political activity but in general Mr. Wechsler seems to have gotten the spirit of the American campus. Though it displeases him very much is appears to this reviewer that indifference, annoying as it can be, is preferable to half-baked activity and student organization such as is seen today in the middle and west of Europe. Indifference may not be good preparation for citizenship...
...score. To the quintet which brought this victory: W. A. Beyer '33, V. L. Eaton '34, N. E. Long '32, A. G. Malkan '33, and M. A. Mergentheim '33, three other men--C. J. Tanenbaum '34, R. B. Thomson '32, and B. I. Wechsler '34, will be added, constituting a formidable team. In the second round they pit their skill against Yale and in the third round, against Princeton, always playing the black pieces...
...Srole, Chicago, Ill., D. M. Sullivan, Boston, A. E. Taylor, Pomona, Cal., A. J. Torrielli, Watertown, W. I. Tucker, Baltimore, Md., L. Urow, Lynn, R. K. Vietor, Amesbury, G. B. Walker, Lake Placid Club, N. Y., J. D. Wassersug, Dorchester, T. F. Waters, 2d., Fall River, I. R., Wechsler, Newark, N. J., S. J. Wener, New York City, A. W. Wilkinson, Phoenix, Ariz., C. W. Williams, McKeesport, Pa., L. Williams, Cambridge, B. A. Winter, East Cleveland, Ohio, D. N. Yerkes, New Haven, Conn., B. Renshaw, New York City.M...