Word: jaeger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointment follows the retirement last year of Dean Roscoe Pound, who had served as University Professor since 1935, when the four posts were first established. The other three chairs are currently held by Werner Jaeger, Classicist; Summer H. Slichter, economist; and Ivor A. Richards, humanist...
...dilution by translation is a problem for any language department and many of them offer courses in English for non-concentrators. Slavic 150 and Professor Jaeger's Greek 10 are outstanding examples: students without a working knowledge of Russian or Greek can still get a good grasp of the two cultures. This is especially important for students of literature, but unfortunately many of them are barred from Romance literatures because they lack the necessary reading knowledge...
...Trembling (adapted by Louis Paul from his novel Breakdown; produced by Paul Czinner and C. P. Jaeger) is a very exhaustive, and very exhausting, study of a dipsomaniac. It reveals Ellen Croy, a Manhattan newspaper columnist (Elisabeth Bergner), as a driven soul, harrowed by something in her life which she can neither exorcise nor explain. The play follows her step by step, relationship by relationship-boss (Anthony Ross), husband (Millard Mitchell), old friend (John Carradine)-down into the pit. Then it slowly drags her back into the light...
English One coupled with Jaeger's "Man and Society in Greek Thought" points inescapably to the need for a broad approach to Romance Literature through a course aimed specifically at non-concentrators. This need has long been conspicuous to the humanities student unacquainted with French or Spanish but nonetheless anxious for a glimpse at Latin culture...
...necessary to be enrolled in the department, however, in order to realize the full value of courses by such men as Jaeger, John H. Finley '25, Eliot Professor of Greek and the congenial master of Eliot House, Arthur S. Pease '02, Pope Professor of the Latin language and Literature and Mason Hammond '25, associate professor of Greek and Latin and of History. In addition to the professors, there are many exceptionally competent and highly enjoyable members of the Society of Fellows who assist in the larger courses, such as John Moore '38, Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows, whose...