Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present approximately 40 percent of the undergraduates belong to fraternities. This represents a substantial percentage-wise increase over four years ago, but it is mainly due to the decline in the overall college enrollment...
...think it's wise to restrict spring training." Jordan added, "so as not to let it get out of hand. But I think it's good for the boys and doesn't hurt the game...
That the situation was disappointing, Eisenhower was prompt to admit. "There is always," he explained, "the grey zone of human affairs." The picture was not all grey. In Eisenhower's judgment-and in the initial calculations of the Three Wise Men-ithere was enough on hand or within reach to put together a NATO army of 20 fully equipped divisions by next year. Washington convinced itself that such an army in being by 1952 was preferable to 60 on paper now, and half ready by 1954. Besides, the development of tactical atomic weapons might make a 20-division army...
...degree in Biblical archeology. Dr. George Hedley, 52, is one of the few. As Professor of Sociology and Economics at California's Mills College (for women), Economist Hedley has explained Adam Smith to eleven classes of Mills girls. As college chaplain, Methodist Hedley packs Sunday services with his wise and scholarly preaching. But he is impatient with student intellectuals, left or right, who respect his secular scholarship while looking down on his religious beliefs. Last week, in a book called Superstitions of the Irreligious (Macmillan; $2.50), he chucked a few stones at his irreligious friends' "glass houses...
Died. Christian Gauss, 73, author, teacher and scholar, who as a wise and witty dean (1925-45) and professor of languages and literature (1905-45) helped bring up three generations of Princeton men; of a heart attack; in Pennsylvania Station, Manhattan. At 20, he left his native Michigan for a fling in Paris as an aspiring poet, soon returned home to teach, was brought to Princeton by President Woodrow Wilson in 1905 as one of the university's first group of preceptors. A devoted student of the classics and a student of the noisy world outside the college gates...