Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contemporary emphasis on science will not be a permanent feature of civilization, Herbert Butterfield, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, predicted in an interview recently...
Teaching Fellows in the English Department yesterday expressed "distress" at the way senior Honors theses were distributed to Faculty readers. "It is unfortunate," said one, "that theses on modern authors were given to tutors whose interest and competence lies in an earlier period...
Walter J. Bate '39, Chairman of the Department, explained that the number of Honors theses submitted has jumped from around 75 to 105 in a single year, "creating some pressure on our graders." In addition, whereas undergraduates tend to prefer the modern period, many teaching fellows specialize on "earlier, more traditional writers...
...college has complete choice of recipients and control over allotment of loans except that "special consideration" is to be given prospective teachers and students in the sciences or modern languages. The only other restriction upon the college's discretion is the provision that the borrower sign an affidavit that he does not believe in, belong to, or support any subversive organization...
...courses in philosophy, history, government, literature and music, as well as language courses have been drawn together in the broadened program, he explained. One of the new courses, covering Russian thought from Ivan the Terrible to Pasternak, will be given by James H. Billington, assistant professor of History. A modern Russian literature course will be conducted by Vsevolod Setschkareff, associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures...