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...course will replace History 146b, "History of France, 1715-1815," next year, now taught by C. Crane Brinton, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History. Brinton will take a leave of absence next year...
...will of George Brinton Beal has named Harvard as the recipient of a large amount of material on circus life...
After reading The Sun Also Rises and auditing three lectures by Crane Brinton, we have decided that mere belief in the principles of democracy will not suffice. So, we have pledged ourselves and our lives to a Harvard Brigade which will join the forces of Fidel Castro in his battle against the soldiers of the Cuban dictator, Fulgencio Batista...
When he returned to Harvard, Taylor took over the teaching of the first half of History I, but, with the advent of General Education, he and Crane Brinton transformed the course into the present Social Sciences I. Taylor taught the first fine half of this course up through last year, when he gave it up, partly to have more time for research, and partly because he felt the course had reached the stage of development he had been aiming...
Indeed, says Historian Crane Brinton, the alienation of intellectuals may be a thing of the past. "They really share, at bottom, the faith of their fellows . . . Some of these intellectuals despair-though by no means quietly-simply because they have heard talk of despair. Many of them, if you catch them unawares, look as if they were enjoying themselves, and not merely enjoying their unhappiness. In fact ... it begins to look nowadays in our perspective as if Sinclair Lewis and George F. Babbitt were brothers, under the skin...