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...refusal to reappoint these two men leaves a serious gap in the Department's curriculum, providing no expert tutors in the period from the fall of Rome to the eighteenth century," the letter sent out yesterday stated...
Houghton, who graduated from Yale, and took his Ph.D. here, is an authority on seventeenth century English Literature, and his departure will leave that branch of the English Department extremely shorthanded. Popular with his tutees, Houghton is the author of a book on Walter Fuller, an eighteenth century writer...
Finn Ferner turned in the best Harvard performance in Saturday's cross-country race, run over a nine-mile course with excellent snow conditions, by finishing eleventh. Close behind him were Del Ames and Bill Halsey, fourteenth and fifteenth respectively. Lindley Burton, Roger Wilson, and Jack Crawford ended up eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth...
...only as an expression--or better, rationalization--of social change. To give it reality, it must be projected back on to the plane out of which it was cut: the economic world of the author. In the very choice of the "factors remaining equal" lies social philosophy. Quesnay and eighteenth-century France, Adam Smith and British industrial supremacy, Keynes and stagnation, are inseparably intertwined. Like political science, economic theory cannot be torn out of its historical context without losing substance...
...such dualizings Duke University's Newman Ivey White has long and flatly said no. To Professor White, Shelley was a child of his century, whose cradle was rocked by "the French Revolution [which] was blowing like an irresistible gale against the rotten political and social structure which the eighteenth century had considered stable and enduring." One of the two or three minds who vitally affected 19th-Century thought, Shelley was perhaps the most radical voice in poetry since Lucretius, an inexorable social revolutionist. A rhyming Marx, he urged the British masses...