Word: barzun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boubouroche and Article 330 by Georges Courteline -- who, with Feydeau, was one of the two foremost modern French comic dramatists-- will be presented in translations by Alfred Bermel and Jacques Barzun, respectively...
...outstanding works dealing more generally with the problems of American higher education are Jacques Barzun's Teacher in America (1945), available in paperback, and a sterling series of seven or eight volumes issuing from the pen of Robert Maynard Hutchins between 1936 and 1956: (in paperback: Higher Learning in America and Freedom. Education and the Fund). The Profane Comedy belongs with these; and if you have time for only one of them, this...
...everybody at the University has been willing to follow the crowd in the sadly neglected field of educational administration. "Next to hospitals, American colleges and universities are the worst administered private establishments in the land," said Jacques Barzun after trying to run Columbia's graduate school. Sure, professors at the University seem to get a lot of laughs out of administrative red-tape and the bureaucrats, but they don't seem to notice that Harvard's weird and frustrating administration may be costing the University the support of those it needs most. And this same administration will make the important...
...epee John Reckler took both his bouts. Nick Spitzer, Don McCloskey, and Peter Piazza contributed one victory apiece. Paul Zygas paced the sabre team with victories in the two times he fenced. Single victories were added by Roger Barzun and Larry Butler...
...three starting members of the Crimson's outstanding sabre aggregation--John Kennedy, Jim Pusey, and Paul Winig--will not compete. Their places will be filled by three sophomores--Mark Speyer, Larry Buter, and Kestutis Zygas--and junior Rofer Barzun...