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...Jews supply twice their proportionate share of the nation's college students and only half their share of the jailbirds. But, beyond anything that statistics could express, the Jews' life under America's sheltering trees was a new experience after their long wanderings. Writes Historian Oscar Handlin: "Looking backward from 1954, the three hundred years of Jewish life in the U.S. seem an adventure in freedom...
...work he has written. As a teacher he has the unique distinction of having four of his students as holders of the Pulitzer Prize. Two of these, Paul H. Buck and Fred Shannon, received their awards for doctoral theses done directly under his supervision. The other two are Oscar Handlin, winner in 1952, and his son, Arthur...
...Massachusetts Division of Immigration and Americanization--a counseling group not connected with the federal immigration service--advocates several specific recommendations for students: clarify the implications of exchange status to "visitors"; make it easier for regular foreign students to readjust under the quota system. Indeed, according to Oscar Handlin, associate professor of History, the "whole quota system is unreasonable." Such requirements as the double quota need of section 245 "impose needless hardship on students," he feels...
...authors are Oscar Handlin, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Samuel E. Morison, Frederick Merk, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, and Paul H. Buck, all professors of History...
...lecturer may also take over the Schlesinger, Sr., History 163 course. The Social and Cultural History of the United States. Oscar Handlin, professor of History, will eventually teach History 163, but will be on a sabbatical next year...