Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...divine things. . . . Somehow modern theology will have to find the road back to the God of the Scriptures, the God of whom Pascal in his spiritual autobiography is reported to have exclaimed in the night of his conversion: 'God! the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob! The God of Jesus Christ! Not the God of the philosophers and the scholars...
...Jacob, called in at the last moment to replace Samuel E. Stuart, 2nd, '46, who is confined at Stillman Infirmary, and Detlev F. Vagts '49 upheld the affirmative side of the topic, "Resolved, That labor should have a direct share in the management of industry." Arguing against the Crimson duo were Frank Scanlon and Alfred Mongin from the Philadelphia college...
Substituting for a sick colleague, Edwin L. Jacob '47 turned a neck-and-neck debate with Temple University into a unanimous victory for Harvard last night by his spirited rebuttal in favor of giving labor a direct share in the management of industry...
...three of the judges admitted afterwards to being doubtful in forming a decision until after the rebuttal speech by Jacob, in which he successfully met several points which had been raised by the opposing disputants against the practicability of a direct share for labor in management. The judges included: Rendigs T. Fels '39, teaching fellow in Economics, and Charles S. Gillispie '36 and Aaron Noland '41, both teaching fellows in History. Arthur Sporn '47 moderated the debate...
...Noteworthy noisemakers in the fine arts were a couple of oldsters: in London, Sculptor Jacob Epstein, 66; in Paris, Pianist Alfred Cortot...