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...good course. Page one of any book on Education says that this should not be so, but the teaching of history's mazes is understandably jammed with recounters of obscure events, and with lecturers who ride private hobby horses down the long sweep of History. That Professor Crane Brinton has synthesized rather than compromised these extremes is a viewpoint that surprising numbers of otherwise unwarlike History concentrators will advance belligerently...
Even strangers to the field, watching to affable, silver-haired historian establish connections between the cold facts of time past and the alive, present-day ideas that spring from them, feel that here is a born historian. Actually, Professor Brinton came to Harvard in 1915 from his home in Connecticut(where he was born in 1808), wavering between English and History. "But English A decided that question-it scared me off," he says, a touch ruefully...
...colleges, you really have a chance to be yourself," was Professor Crane Brinton's keynote for future professors. "It gives you independence to teach what you believe, whether communism or conservatism...
William G. Saltonstall, headmaster of Exeter Academy, will speak on private school teaching, while Dana M. Cotton, Director of Placement at the Graduate School of Education, will discuss public schools. Professor C. Crane Brinton will talk on colleges...
Other speakers will include William G. Saltonstall, headmaster of Exeter, Professor Crane Brinton '19, and Dana M. Cotton, director of placement at the Graduate School of Education...