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...Kohn gives forceful lectures, confessing his biases as he goes along. He frequently turns to his students for answers to often obscure questions, waiting patiently until somebody in the back of the room thinks of the answer. ("You are right, absolutely correct...
Although he had no Ph.D. students to work with at Smith, Kohn strongly defends women's colleges and their intellectual life. According to him, their major problem is the low faculty salaries. "Twenty years after graduation the average male graduate is making money, and he isn't studying anything besides the daily newspaper and the trade magazine, but the Smith girl is still reading...
...improbable if we don't make mistakes--if we don't relax our military effort and our work towards Atlantic Union or if we don't become provocative out of too great fear." According to Kohn, the Cold War won't last too long, "perhaps ten or 15 years...
...professor at City College, Kohn taught at Harvard twice before as a visiting lecturer. When he was last here in 1943, he was gravely concerned about Russia, but today he feels our country is too pessimistic...
...Kohn's major concern now is the loss by democrats of the ability to make moral discriminations. "In 1945 we thought Stalinism was different from fascism. In our mental softness, we have adopted much from our enemies...