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President Conant will address the students Sunday in a Baccalaureate sermon, and Governor Leverett Saltonstall will read the first lesson from the Scriptures. Dean Willard L. Sperry of the Divinity School will conduct the service, which will be introduced by an academic procession of all undergraduates, military and naval officers, University dignitaries, and local city officials. The R.O.T.C. units will march in uniform. If necessary, there will be an overflow gathering in Sanders Theatre, where guests will participate fully in the service...
...They laugh best who laugh last," Biographer Rukeyser quotes from William James. "Wait till we're dead twenty years. Look at the way they're now treating poor Willard Gibbs, who during his lifetime car hardly have been considered any great shakes at New Haven." Readers unable to place (Josiah) Willard Gibbs need not fret about it. Paradoxically, Gibbs is perhaps best known for his obscurity, a personal blackout which has become legendary. Professors, publicists, prominent Yale men for years have publicly confessed ignorance of Yale's most distinguished son. But by those in the know...
Book & Author. It has remained for a young woman poet,* author of an earlier poem in his honor, to write the first full-length biography of Willard Gibbs. (She explains, "The world of the poet ... is the scientist's world. Their claim on systems is the same claim. Their writings anticipate each other; welcome each other; indeed embrace. As Lucretius answered Epicurus, Gibbs answers Whitman. . . .") The result is a book frequently verging on the apocalyptical in language; a Moby Dick of a book in intention and intimations, touching on "the sum of things...
...criticism outraged the university's president, Engineer Arthur C. Willard, who had supposed that the central character and achievement of a university was cultural, would be intangible on a balance sheet...
Snorted President Willard :"A university has only one major function, which is education and research. . . . The business operations of the institution are secondary and incidental to this function and so are its general public relations...