Word: historian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demonstrated in Peiping, Shanghai and Tientsin against Japan. At Tokyo's behest, Nanking has dissolved scores of local offices of the Kuomintang, which is the political party of the Generalissimo himself, the only party he permits to exist in China. Anti-Japanese passages have been expunged by Chinese historians from many Chinese schoolbooks on orders from Japan, and hard to find even a few weeks ago was an eminent Chinese bold enough to say with Peiping's great Historian-Philosopher Dr. Hu Shih: "It would be better to make a Belgium of North China and to make Peiping...
Stamping out a threatened rise of heresy, Samuel E. Morison '07, professor of History and official Harvard historian, early this week requested the Student Union to change the name of one of its sub-committees from Campus to Yard Questions...
...from this environment when his father grew prosperous in the building business. He attended Columbia University, whence he graduated to literary and radical circles in Greenwich Village. Deeply influenced by Max Eastman and Floyd Dell. Freeman was a Socialist during the War, supported the action of Columbia's Historian Charles Beard, who resigned in protest against the expulsion of pacifist professors. Working as a foreign correspondent in Paris and London after the War, Freeman covered the crash of the ZR-2, worked under Floyd Gibbons, conducted a long international correspondence on political and literary matters with his old schoolmates...
...reading public will welcome this new and inexpensive edition of Henry Adams's study of medievalism, the earlier and companion-volume to his "Education of Henry Adams." In the two works the great historian-artist-philosopher set out to contrast, the unity of the middle ages with the individualism of the present day. Neither was written for general consumption but rather as an intellectual exercise for the author's peculiar benefit. They are thus full of ripe personal wisdom and illumined by the brilliant yet wary genius of the man Adams...
Although he gives only limited sketches of individuals, Bernstorff mentions in passing that the Archduchess Luisa was "more of a case for Sigmund Freud than for the historian," that Prince Max could only sleep with the assistance of powerful narcotics. His best portrait is of his friend Talaat Pasha, Grand Vizier of Turkey, a gentle cynic who, when pressed about the Armenian question, would suggest that it was solved since there were no Armenians left. Anxious to have Turkey represented at an international Socialist Congress, Talaat was embarrassed to find that there were no Turkish Socialists either. He appointed three...