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...students registered in Columbia College must study two years of Contemporary Civilization and two years of Humanities. "CC" is conducted on a joint basis with members from the departments of anthropology, economics, government, history, philosophy, and sociology. Professor Justis Buchler, head of the Contemporary Civilization department, refuses to define the course, claiming that it "defies description in a few words; I have written 30,000 words attempting to describe...
Among the members of the faculty committee are Justus Buchler, Chairman of the Contemporary Civilization Department. Richard Hofstadier, and philosophy professor Irwin Edman. Nevins said of Stevenson's campaign. "Not since the days of Woodrow Wilson has a candidate run a campaign on such a high level." He added that he expects a "really great presidency...
Efforts to form a world government discussion club here are at present being considered by a small group. Howard Buchler '49 has talked with members of the administration, who have put forth the idea of forming one large international affairs organization of which the Student Federalist group could be an independent subcommittee...
Three orations of a more serious nature than yesterday's Ivy Oration are being delivered at the Commencement Exercises this morning. They are the English Commencement Part by Reginald G. Buchler, a graduate of Yale in 1919, and the traditional Latin Part by Paul L. MacKendrick '34, and another English part by Malcolm A. Hoffman...
...Buchler's address, is a tribute to Irying Babbitt, for many years one of the College's most distinguished English professors. After asserting that Mr. Babbitt showed that there was something more to literature than an escape from reality and a vicarious romance, lie goes on to say that "Because this method of studying literature demanded a concentration on the ideas contained therein, he had little use for scholars who concern themselves primarily with sources and textual criticism." This may have caused him to miss the value of some literature, but this belief made him "restore to literary criticism some...