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...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...
...will now join President Pusey, Dean Ford, and six other scholars in the Society, which selects the Junior Fellows. Other Seniors include Crane Brinton, Chairman of the Society and McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History; Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry; Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee professor of Economics; Harry T. Levin, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature; Edward M. Purcell, Gerhard Gade University Professor; and Willard V. Quine, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy...
...students, who rely on a couple of textbooks, call the course "Page a Day with Hajo Holborn," and don't bother much about lectures. Virtually promised grades of more than 85, they merely await questions that rarely change from year to year. Harvard's famed Crane Brinton freely admits that he "likes undergraduates and doesn't want to make them work too hard." A 30-page paper is required for "Brunch with Brinton," but the good professor advises that "one page of aphorisms will be perfectly acceptable...
...Crane Brinton, Chairman of Harvard's Society of Fellows, recalled that Nock had enjoyed "telling shaggy dog stories" at the Society's weekly dinners. "He was a well-known anecdotist," Brinton said. "He was active both in the election of Junior Fellows and at our dinners until his death." Nock was for 25 years a Senior Fellow in the Society...