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Prescott is often quoted today, but seldom, if ever, read. To put him back into circulation, Historian Irwin Blacker has soldered together generous excerpts from Prescott's four books-Ferdinand and Isabella, The Conquest of Mexico, The Conquest of Peru and Philip II. Prescott may have had no first-hand experience of Spain, but he had what was perhaps better-good friends in the U.S. diplomatic service. He used them to get access to documents in Madrid that no historian had seen before. The scaffolding of fact upon which Prescott constructed his books was so solid that more than...
...hospital. In fact he boasted of his success in getting the Negroes out of their original hospital quarters, in a leaky basement. When he was first informed that they were not exactly living in splendor now, he reflected that "the first move came 15 years ago. Maybe another change will take as long as 15 years; but don't worry. It will come." Finally, after talking with some Negroes who had had first-hand experience with the hospital, he agreed that something should be done now. This was a major concession...
Christopher Rawson, a journalism looking for a political story who ends up with a first-hand expose of Miss Stearns' posterior, is a bit dry compared to the others. But there is no doubt he knows a good story when he sees...
...provides the fundamental concepts and techniques on which all further work is based, though not covering the substance of the further work; e.g. the chemical calculations taught in Chemistry 2 are needed for organic chemistry, but Chemistry 2 includes no organic chemistry. Both kinds of courses will supply the first-hand experience with the science on which the "insights" the Redbook desires can be based...
...there should be available to him science courses in General Education proper which assume and draw on his knowledge. These courses should take up explicitly three issues usually ignored in the departmental courses: first, the methods of sciences, analyzed and compared on the basis of a grasp of at least one method of one science; second, the grounds of scientific generalizations and theories, extending first-hand experience with theoretical calculations from introductory laboratories; third, the social context of science, starting from knowledge of at least one scientist in one real laboratory in one real department. It is these courses that...