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"Our modern universities have been too busy with new frontiers in technical knowledge and have not worried enough about the ends to which we will put this knowledge," Elting E. Morison '32, professor of Industrial History at M.I.T., charged at last night's first Lemann lecture.
"Postholing." Nonetheless, E.S.I.'s innovators cannot help improving the dead-fact history taught in so many U.S. schools, teaching that ignores the new insights of anthropology, sociology, economics, psychology. Last summer, E.S.I, scholars in such fields met to mull ideas that boil down to one main approach: use all...
Massachusetts-born, Bill Shannon graduated from Clark University in 1947, wrote a political history of the Irish in Massachusetts while studying for a master's degree in history at Harvard under Arthur Schlesinger Jr.. who called him "the most brilliant student I ever had." Then he sailed a...
Elting E. Morison '32, professor of Industrial History at M.I.T., the other speaker at the celebration, declared that Roosevelt also "used power to define issues and to educate the public." Morison stressed the importance of the "influence of a man who knew, not so much how to rule, as how...
The theme of the address by Lodge will be "Theodore Roosevelt and America's World Responsibility." Elting E. Morison '32, Professor of Industrial History at M.I.T. and editor of "The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt" will speak on "Theodore Roosevelt and the Categorial Imperative."