Word: levins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Petitions for Class Representing to the Student Council must be turned in by 5 o'clock today, Albert B. Levin '56, president of the Council announced yesterday. They should be brought to the Council office in Phillips Brooks House, he added...
...Levin has also been able to advise and encourage many of the most promising younger writers in the Cambridge community. Richard Wilbur, for instance, dedicated his recent translation of Le Misanthrope to Levin. Robert Anderson, author of Tea and Sympathy, was a student of Levin and later a section man in his course on the Elizabethan drama, before leaving Cambridge to write the play. And Levin still remembers the day Robert Lowell, then a freshman in the College, came to him for advice as to whether or not he should transfer to Kenyon and John Crowe Ransom (which he eventually...
...breadth of his intellectual interests Levin certainly resembles the teachers who have influenced him most, Alfred North Whitehead and, especially, Irving Babbitt. Babbitt's encyclopdic crudition provoked his students to make bets before lectures as to how many different authors he would refer to in the course of an hour, a custom which would not be out of place in Levin's courses. But Levin is still only at the mid-point of his career. Influenced by some of the greatest teachers in the Harvard tradition, a strong influence himself on some of the brightest students exposed to that tradition...
...Levin Dissatisfied...
Albert B. Levin '56, President of the Student Council, said he was "not satisfied with the progress of the committee." Levin added, however, that the Council would probably leave it to the House Committees to appoint a new Food Committee or take any other action...