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...approaching middle age, 75-year-old Professor Charles Howard McIlwain is due to retire at the end of the present term. He leaves Harvard as the world's foremost authority on the background of the English Constitution, a subject satisfying his real love for history, though he officially labors under the title of Eaton Professor of the Sciences of Government...
They are: Charles H. McIlwain, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, (effective July 1); Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, effective July 1); Sidney B. Fay '96, professor of History, (effective July 1); Arthur F. Whittem '02, associate professor of Romance Languages, dean of special students, and director of University Extension, (effective September 1); Louis J. A. Mercier, associate professor of French and Education, (effective September 1); Frederick G. White '19, faculty instructor in English and secretary of the Division of Modern Languages, (effective June 30); William J. Cunningham, James J. Hill Professor of Zoology, as curator...
Professor McIlwain is best known to undergraduates for his survey on Political Theory (Gov 6) which has been flooded this year by students wanting to take a last course under the venerable scholar. Gov 6 will be taken over, next fall, by Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, whose Gov 5 and 121 deal mainly with modern political thought. Professor McIlwain's best known books are "The Growth of Political Theory in the West" and "The American Revolution," a Pulitzer Prize winner...
Professor McIlwain lectured in Balliol College during Oxford's Trinity Term on the background of Angle-American constitutional institutions. "At Oxford it's much the same as here at Harvard," he asserted. "The students are either too young for military service or rejected for physical reasons. The faculty has also been hard-hit by the demand for men in the government services. Like Harvard, Oxford is trying to carry on with the cultural subjects in spite of the trend toward technical studies...
...McIlwain was the Pulitzer Prize winner in American History for 1924 and is a world-famous authority on political theory. A graduate of Princeton in 1894, he has held the Eaton chair at Harvard since 1927. His best-known books are "The High Court of Parliament and Its Supremacy," "The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation," "Constitutionalism, Ancient and Modern," "Constitutionalism and the Changing World," and "The Growth of Political Thought in the West from the Greeks to the End of the Middle Ages...