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...under only the most general eye of the Senior Fellows. These form an unusual group in their own right: Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Kenneth B. Murdock, Samuel Eliot Morison, and Alfred North Whitchead have been past members. The present group of Senior Fellows is led by Crane Brinton and includes Frederick L. Hisaw, Harry T. Levin, Arthur Darby Nock, Renato Poggioli and Edward M. Purcell...
Organizers of the club on March 15 obtained the consent of C. Crane Brinton '19, professor of History, to serve as one of the group's faculty advisers. Since then, James R. Schlesinger, teaching fellow in Economics, has also agreed to sponsor the organization. The Conservatives have submitted to the Council the required list of at least ten club members...
...attacked "at least one" of the four undergraduates who signed Monday's statement disavewing all intentions to carry on "scouting" activities. On the basis of this statement C. Crane Brinton '19, professor of History, had agreed to sponsor the League...
European neutrality, explains Brinton, "is not a noble feeling, nor one with a sound basis in history. The spiritual crisis of our age has its roots in Western Europe at least as deeply as in the United States. But the war was fought there . . . and the reaction is normal." In deed neutralism is a normal response, and it is here that Brinton's ebullient optimism goes flat; the United States cannot bank on European gratitude or support when its popularity rating is barely a polite handclap...
...Brinton's writing is quite lucid; in fact he often sacrifices accuracy to gain clarity in making his optimistic generalizations. In such a short book perhaps this is inevitable, but only audacity could permit him to criticize Koestler and Shirer for generalizing their pessimism. With Brinton's hope tipping the scales the other way, the reader is tempted to seek the balanced view somewhere in between...