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...Springfield, Ohio one night, two pledges of the Wittenberg College chapter of Alpha Tau Omega, exhausted after two sleepless-nights of initiation preliminaries, were driven eight miles out of town and left to make their own way back. Hit by a truck at 8 a.m. after they had fallen asleep on the edge of the road, one was killed, the other injured. Wittenberg ordered officers of the fraternity to resign, suspended its charter for the rest of the year...
Wooster 27, Wittenberg...
...religious indifferentism, worldliness and irreligion which are the marks of contemporary living . . . [Protestants] have thus far found no means of halting the anarchy which stems unceasingly from the Protestant principle of exalting the private judgment of each individual. When Luther posted his thesis on the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral, he unleashed upon the world a Pandora's box full of the evils of paganism, free love, divorce, and error from which the world has not yet recovered...
...life. Hervey Allen's Israfel cleared up most of the legendary mysteries of his career without making the poet himself any less strange, or unearthly a character. This handsome two-volume edition of Poe's letters, the work of John Ward Ostrom (associate professor of English at Wittenberg College), is essential to every serious student of Poe's career; but on the basis of this collection alone the reader might well form a picture of America's greatest lyric poet as a hardworking, businesslike, irritable literary politician...
...Clocks. Wittenberg, who is 29, expects to go on wrestling for a long time. Says he: "In wrestling, you don't compete against a clock or against a tape measure. And as you begin to slow down, you get smarter." Turn pro? Not Henry Wittenberg. Says he coldly: "I question the authenticity of professional wrestling...