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...Hans Kohn must be used to teaching in isolation. He first taught in a Russian prison camp where "people were so bored they were willing to listen." Later he spent 15 years teaching the girls at secluded Smith College in Northampton...
This summer Kohn is returning to Harvard to give two courses on nationalism. Students this term have heard him stress that "war is always a great misfortune," but Kohn probably owes his career and its success to World War I. The war started him on 20 years of travel on three continents before he settled down to teaching...
Born in Prague 60 years ago, Kohn might have followed his father's wishes and become a lawyer but for World War I. Just after he finished his education, he went to serve in the Austrian army. (He admits he was then under the spell of the nationalism he has grown to dislike.) Captured by the Russians in the spring of 1915, he spent almost five years in Turkestan and Siberia...
...Here Kohn developed his interest in teaching and scholarship as there was so much time for "sitting and reading." But he had a good chance to watch the coming of the revolution, as the prison camps were "not so strict." "You could go into the local town, and the people were good-natured." This was before "Lenin came and stopped the people from being easy-going." ("Too much efficiency is harmful...
...Kohn left Palestine in 1931 because "there was too much chauvinism," and came to the United States. His 15 years at Smith have left a deep impression on him. His lectures are still filled with the references about women that must have aroused girls at Smith. He often refers to women having succumbed very easily to irrational nationalistic movements and their handsome leaders...