Word: durant
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...REASON BEGINS (732 pp.) -Will and Ariel Durant-Simon & Schuster...
Historian Durant's province is scarcely less vast, as readers of his massive, generally excellent Story of Civilization know. The seventh volume in that story is also one of the best. It introduces the period that Durant regards as his own. What was planned as Durant's final volume is now to become part of a trilogy-with The Age of Louis XIV (1963) and The Age of Voltaire (1965) still ahead...
Pardon for All. Although the Age of Reason thus becomes the most scrupulously scrutinized period of Durant's entire enterprise, this volume contains some curious errors of emphasis: the great migration of peasants and adventurers, jailbirds and divines from the England of James I to the New World is dismissed in a paragraph; the years during which Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov and the first of the Romanov dynasty were transforming Muscovite Russia into an imperial power get only six pages...
...Buckingham Palace of Clark Kerr's empire, across the bay from San Francisco. Few campuses boast an odder beginning. Berkeley's impecunious parent was a Congregationalist academy launched in 1853 by a Yale clergyman from Massachusetts. The campus was a fandango dance hall, but Founder Henry Durant in a letter home glowed over the "beauty and salubrity" of the place. He hoped to educate gold miners, and believed in looking on the bright side...
Later the Rev. Mr. Durant bought 160 acres out on Strawberry Creek, named it after Philosopher George Berkeley, the poetic Irish bishop of Cloyne ("Westward the course of empire takes its way"). The westward course was a poor one until Governor Frederick Low put tax and land-grant money into the campus, and 92 years ago started the University of California...