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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg is one of many relatively obscure German writers who deserve respect in a literary world dominated by English and French authors. The reputation acquired by German writers even of the classic period of German literature has been one of an extreme stuffiness, and this reputation has naturally not aided German popularity. Lichtenberg as he is presented by Professors Mautner and Hatfield may in part dissolve this outdated notion...
After years of an English acceptance of the Germans as a darkly brooding people, this Lichtenberg collection comes as an enlightening influence. Let this fact be no determining factor, however, in one's interest in Lichtenberg. Though writing during the Enlightenment, he is definitely oriented towards the modern world. What Lichtenberg has to say about his own day is quite applicable to our own: "Man is so perfectible and corruptible that he can become a madman through sheer intellect...
...recent letter to the Manchester Guardian Weekly, Martin L. Kilson '57 countered an accusation of racial and religious discrimination directed at the University by an English professor...
President Jordan, who is an authority on English History of the Stuart and Tudor periods, announced his resignation last spring, effective in January...
...concluding address as President of Radcliffe College last night, Wilbur K. Jordan spoke on the life of Ann Radcliffe, the seventeenth century English philantropist for whom the College is named. Although gaps exist in the historical documentation of her life, Jordan said, there is abundant evidence that Ann Radcliffe was a "truly remarkable woman" and a "sagaciously tough lady...