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...lead their commencement processions. Most Harvard prize winners grow up to be professors, many of them professors at Harvard. John H. Finley, Jr. '25 won $250 for a Bowdoin essay on "Euripides and Shaw Compared." Mason Hammond '25 won $50 apiece for translations in Greek and Latin. Clarence Crane Brinton '19 won an Elizabeth Wilder Prize in 1916, made to a Freshman in need of financial aid who receive the highest mark on a German A or B exam. Brinton, like Louis Hartz '40 and Leonard K. Nash '39 won deturs, prizes of books awarded out of the Charity...
...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...
After an article in Time listed the course as a sort of blue-chip gut, enrollment last fall soared to a fifth-place 417. But Brinton then announced that his course would no longer be easy, and this year the bottom fell out of the market, plunging the course out of sight below the 25th place mark...
...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...