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Asociate Professor I. Bernard Cohen is not a stranger to the public spotlight. In fact, in his first Natural Sciences 3 lecture last year, he switched out all the lights in Burr B and introduced the course while an assistant focused a spotlight on him. Although he does not always employ such theatrical effects in his History of Science and Learning course, this great self-confidence shines through wherever he lectures...
...Writer Mort Lewis decided that Lee's generalship would have ended the Civil War two years sooner, thus leading to an earlier assassination of Lincoln and Lee's election as President. Other Stroke of Fate teasers: Suppose Montcalm had defeated Wolfe at Quebec, Hamilton had killed Burr in their duel, Hitler had been killed in the Munich beer-hall Putsch? The program's solid grounding in historical fact (Nevins and Historian Stefan Lorant are regular advisers) and able dramatizations give it plausibility and high marks for entertainment...
...NINA BURR...
...pretty deep analysis of the theory of democracy will take place in Burr Hall A this fall Soc. Sci. 118 generally acclaimed as one of the top advanced G.E. courses will feature popular Louis Hartz as lecturer. Not a gut by any means, the reading list ranges from Locke to Freud, and a good deal of individual thought is necessary for any token of success...
Pulitzer Prize winner Archibald MacLeish gives a searching course in understanding and interpreting the art of poetry. Lectures take place in Burr A and the course is called Humanities 130a. Writer and critic Alfred Kazin will be the lecturer in English 171, Art and Expression in American Literature. Visiting Harvard for the year, Kazin's course will touch on history and philosophy as well as poetry and fiction. The first meeting will be in Hunt...