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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chained doors confronted History 1 students yesterday morning when they tried to leave the New Lecture Hall after Professor Michael Karpovich's lecture on Italy. Some prankster, suspected to be of Freshman origin, had passed shackles through the handles of the Building's great oaken doors during the 9 o'clock session, thus virtually imprisoning 400 men at a stroke. After the first panic several bulky upperclassmen broke the portals to kindling-wood, and the assembly surged through the splinters to freedom...
...extreme desirability of correlation in Freshman elementary courses was evidenced yesterday when Dr. Karpovich, History professor, lectured on the music and thought of the nineteenth century and brought something new into the thought processes of the students. For them it is now possible to study the music of the last century not as a constantly narrowing and more specialized field, but one in which each new detail broadens the significance of music in relation to the rest of contemporary human activity...
Come what may, the various departments would do well to emulate the comparatively new and active Music division. It has at least attempted to correlate history with its elementary course by introducing men from the History Department to give historical background-lectures. Yesterday Professor Karpovich, correlating nineteenth century thought with nineteenth century music, did a magnificent job of a type almost unknown to Harvard...
...grants are to Gordon W. Allport '19 Associate Professor of Psychology, Carl J. Friedrich, Professor of Government, and associates, for research on "Public Opinion and Propaganda"; William L. Crum, Professor of Economics, for research on "Current Economic Conditions"; Carl J. Friedrich, Professor of Government, and Michael Karpovich, Assistant Professor of History, for research on "Russian Constitutional History"; Joseph B. Hubbard, Assistant Professor of Business Economics, for research on "Bond and Preferred Stock Flotations"; and Abbott P. Usher '04, Professor of Economics, to complete research on the "Early History of Banking...
Congratulations on your Karpovich feature story. You presented the highlights of his talk on "Student Life in Pre-War Russia" in a well-written, accurate, and interesting manner...