Word: leuchtenberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think that Smith girls hold up pretty well along-side Harvard men," says William Leuchtenberg, assistant professor of History and lecturer in History 170. Leuchtenberg taught at Smith for two years before he came here this fall. He is reluctant to make any more of a comparison "because the CRIMSON is circulated in Northampton as well as Cambridge...
...past eight years Leuchtenberg has been able to combine successfully an academic career with active political work. Born in New York, Leuchtenberg got his B.A. at Cornell, his M.A. at Columbia, and his Ph.D. last spring, also at Columbia, where he studied under Henry Steele Comager...
During '45 and '46 Leuchtenberg was the New England representative on the "FEPC lobby" in Washington. "With a staff of almost all Negroes, I realized for the first time what Negro segregation meant. My most disappointing experience was the sudden departure of one of the legislators who sponsored the FEPC bill. He had been warned that if he voted for the bill, his state would not get allocation of funds for an essential dam. He was a thousand miles away on the day when the bill was taken...
Speaking about his course, the Progressive Tradition in American Politics, Leuchtenberg says, "This is the first time to my knowledge that a course like this has ever been given...
Discussing the present political scene, Leuchtenberg feels that America's liberals have grown afraid to speak out and are thereby defeating their own purposes. He cited Governor Dever's recent signing of the Anti-subversive bill and said...