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Many recent novels and narratives have pictured Europe a dying continent, its citizens politically and intellectually stagnant. Arthur Koestler's Age of Longing and William Shirer's Mid-Century Journey, rather gloomy studies of Western Europe, have challenged the optimistic Crane Brinton. Hoping to find Europe not Entirely decayed, Brinton travelled to France and England searching "an antithesis to the thesis of the prophets of doom and the bellyaching intellectuals." Brinton's candid predisposition impugns the value of his evidence, for the reader can never decide just how much unfavorable information is purposely ignored...
Others are Michael Karpovich, professor of History, Ralph Barton Perry '96. Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, Louis Nemzer, research associate in the Russian Research Center, Louis M. Lyons, Curator of Nieman Fellowships, Mark Neuweld, research fellow at the Russian Research Center, Crane Brinton '19, McLain Professor of Ancient and Modern History, and Dr. David D. Rutstein '30, professor of Preventive Medicine at the Medical School...
Charlie Ufford was eliminated in the second round of individual play by four-time national champion Charlie Brinton. Ufford rallied after a weak start, but eventually lost to Philadelphia's Brinton 15-11, 15-11, 6-15, 11-15, 15-11. Ufford gained the second round after drawing a bye in the first...
...spring, and have further revised the list for the new term. Primary source material is emphasized both terms and was most popular with '55. St. Augustine, Voltaire, Rousseau, J. S. Mill, Engels, Nietzsche, and Fromm were widely liked among the contemporary works, while of the texts, Pirenne, Sabine, and Brinton were best received...
...shuffle of reports the Brinton suggestion of abolishing the office of Dudley's Graduate Secretary and having commuters assigned to houses was scrapped. Also the proposed Committee on Advising was never appointed, although it may soon be set up. And despite all the careful discussion there are still four important problems that have been raised but only partially solved. The prevailing attitude seems to be "We'll just wait and see how it works next fall...