Goodbye Now

All over the U.S., veteran college and university professors were saying goodbye and climbing down from their lecture platforms--this time for keeps. Six topflight teachers whose retirements (in July or September) were announced last week:

P: Princeton's Christian Gauss, 68, judicious, quizzical, pince-nezed professor of modern languages, longtime Dean of the College. Gauss and three others, all retiring now, are the last of President Woodrow Wilson's 47 preceptors, appointed in 1905. Another: Edward Samuel Corwin, 68, professor of jurisprudence, historian of the Constitution and the Court, vigorous defender of Roosevelt's 1937 court-packing plan.

P: Harvard's Ralph Barton Perry, 70, Pulitzer Prizewinning philosopher (Thought and Character of William James), earnest letter-writing and speechifying internationalist; and Sydney Bradshaw Fay, 70, share-the-guilt historian of World War I (Origins of the World War).

P: Stanford's Albert Leon Guerard, 65, professor of literature, transplanted Frenchman, prolific critic and author (Art for Art's Sake, Preface to World Literature, France, a Short History, some 14 other volumes); and Thomas Addis, 64, Scotland-born authority on Bright's disease and other kidney ailments, winner of the Scottish Cullen Prize "for the greatest benefit done to practical medicine in the past four years" (1938-42).

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