Word: brinton
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...only surprise in figures released this week by Sargent Kennedy '28, registrar, is the spectacular drop in enrollment suffered by History 134a, the Intellectual History of Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, taught by Crane Brinton '19, professor of History...
...Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, is retiring after 22 years as Chairman...
Professor Crane Brinton coaxes the drowsy toward consciousness with History 134a, a study of the European intellect and how it penetrated "downward into the crowd." Geography 101 helps arouse scholars with a stroll through the history of the English landscape, and undergraduates in Nat Sci 6 personally retrace the evolution of human awareness while Professor Howells lectures on the same subject...
...other Senior Fellows are Walter Jackson Bate '39, Lowell Professor of the Humanities, Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry, Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Leo Professor of Economics, Harry Levis '33, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, physicist Edward M. Purcell, Gade University Professor, and Willard Van Orman Quine, Pierce Professor of Philosophy...
Aside from la, the star government course is Shklar's "Legal Theory" (Gov. 108), a subject singularly relevant to the crisis in the relations between law and action in the South. Crane Brinton's "Intellectual History of Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries" examines the spread of many of the ideas, embalmed in law, which are now being tested by actin. Another approach to the same complex of problems is H. D. Aiken's Phil. 75, "The Conflict of Ideals in Modern Civilization...