Word: mcilwain
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...recollect that the most impressive faculty member teaching outside the American area in the 1930s was C.H. McIlwain. His English Constitutional History never got past Edward I and his History of Political Theory from Plato to Rousseau stopped dead at Thomas Hobbes. It was from him that I learned what a scholar should be and what he should concern himself with. At the same time a class on the Soviet Union taught as the McIlwain history of political theory was, from the Department of Government, drew enormous crowds and enjoyed a marvellous reputation. I took McIlwain's course for credit...