Word: albigensian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aimed, perhaps, at too many separate marks for a single bombshell, and will seem, to some bystanders at least, to have exploded without major damage to anyone. In the preamble, Mr. Conant is accused of leading, in the name of what seems to Mr. Chase piffling scholarship, an "Albigensian crusade" against good teaching. A good deal of this is surely pure misunderstanding. There are as yet few signs that the present administration really means to fill the Harvard faculty with men who devote their lives to the adverb in Tacitus or to the importation of bananas into Brittany during...