Word: handlinism
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They said Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn, Handlin and Trumbell Professor of American History Donald Fleming were among those who sunk the 33-year-old scholar's tenure chances with letters and comments to Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence...
...Harvard style," Huggins said, was forged in 1940s and 1950s when Professor of History Emeritus Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38 and Loeb University Professor Emeritus Oscar Handlin dominated the field of American History...
Such ostentation seems out of keeping with the solemnity and surviving Brahmin spirit of the university, whose early masters forbade the setting of "bonfires and illuminations" or "making tumultuous or indecent noises." And some Harvard faces have gone crimson at the prospect. Historian Oscar Handlin was quoted as saying, "I would have liked it to be more scholarly and less show biz." The hoopla and hustle will include the licensed sale of memorabilia like goldplated watches to pull a few more dollars into Harvard's $3.5 billion endowment (already the biggest of any private U.S. university...
Loeb University Professor Oscar Handlin on an anecdote about Ben Franklin that was published in a Schenectady, N.Y. newspaper 40 years after the American Revolution...
...Handlin discussed the Revolution's impact on American ideas about politics and government, concluding that it was "an incident in the way of life of a people," but not a clear turning point in American intellectual history--only in its political structure...