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...many years, including 1967-1968, Brinton's course on the Intellectual History of Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries attracted the largest single class enrollment in the College...
...EIGHTEENTH century France bequeathed to the modern world the concepts of revolution and popular democracy-and last week the French seemed bent on perilously trying to practice both at the same time. As the campaign to elect a new National Assembly got underway, rioting and violence erupted anew in cities throughout France. For a while it looked as though the explosion of police concussion and tear-gas grenades might blot out the appeals for votes by the 2,260 candidates running on broadly diverse platforms in Metropolitan France's 470 electoral districts...
...also bear the responsibility of balancing research with teaching. Faculty men have a predilection, as scholars, for research. Only a man who sympathized with this orientation could lead them. Ford's own books demonstrate a patience for technical and archival research; he has absorbed a mass of seventeenth and eighteenth century documents from Strasbourg. Paris, and Vienna in several dialects. Yet Ford, unlike other Faculty members, will not admit that scholarship is the only real criterion on which permanent appointments are based. He points out that ad hoc committees have rejected several departmental recommendations in the last couple of years...
...concert of Mozart concertos and chamber music will be performed by an orchestra of eighteenth-century proportions directed by John Harbisou '59 at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in Sanders Theatre. Admission is free...
Last year, the post-doctoral studies included such topics as the background of the 1964 civil rights act, post-Civil War Indian policy, a demographic study of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Andover, early development in the modernist impulse in American Protestantism, the career of Charles Merriam, and Anglo-American politics in colonial New York...