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...with Conant's statement that "many of the younger members of the Harvard staff, particularly those interested in the General Education program," agree with his interpretation of the humanities. Deknatel argued that this statement seems to imply that older members of the staff disagree and are advocates of the antiquarian attitude. "It seems to me," eknatel said, "that the conception of the humanities as an expression of the creative human spirit is the attitude which most of the teachers of humanities are operating on here. It is certainly far more widespread than the younger members of the General Education Staff...
Open students even in that early day were quick to point out to their administration that a rule requiring women to be out of men's rooms by 7:30 p.m. was antiquarian. Queen Victoria, they noted, had died six years before...
...heart, Falkner was an antiquarian. He delighted in local history and prized his job as honorary reader in paleography at the University of Durham. Five years after Moonfleet, he wrote another adventure story, The Nebuly Coat, which the critics liked even better, but which did not sell nearly so well as the story of Johnnie Trenchard. It was Falkner's last fling as a novelist. Increasingly, like a sensible Englishman, he turned his attention to business. By 1915, he was chairman of the munitions firm of Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. But by 1932, when he died, it was clear that...
...When Antiquarian E. Gordon Alderfer saw these words on the title pages of two battered little books in the Pennsylvania Historical Society archives, his scholar's heart leaped up. Here was the long-neglected major work of one of the first mystics in America-Johannes Kelpius. Last week, titled A Method of Prayer (Harper; $1.50), Kelpius' little classic of devotion was made available to "seekers" of an age that had barely heard...
Doing some research on 12th Century England, Antiquarian Charles R. Beard turned up a footnote on King Richard I. The lion-hearted king had stomach ulcers. His favored treatment: lots of strong hot wine...