Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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EDWARD BELLAMY-Arthur E. Morgan -Columbia University Press...
Terrible Incubus. Julian was spellbound at the wonderful simplicity of this social order. Few present-day readers, having observed the results of state collectivism in practice, would be so uncritical. Edward Bellamy's present (and first) biographer. Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, is also a distinguished visionary: former president of pioneering Antioch College and onetime chairman of TVA. He readily admits that Bellamy's projected social system "would result in actual regimentation" and, if administered by the wrong officials, "might be a terrible incubus on society." But Looking Backward was a warmhearted vision which unquestionably speeded social reform...
...Morgan's biography, put together over ten years with the aid of several collaborators, is fact-packed and scholarly. Unfortunately, it is also uneven and undigested. It fails to synthesize the social philosophy which Bellamy scattered through many an article and book. But, until a better biography is written, thoughtful readers will value it for rescuing a fertile U.S. thinker from his half-forgotten reputation as a one-book...
...least one year's service in the armed forces who have gained educational experience through United States Armed Forces Institute correspondence courses, basic training, or officer's training, will not need a college degree for entrance into the Harvard Law School, it was announced yesterday by Edmund M. Morgan '02, Royall Professor of Law and Acting Dean of the Law School up until the recent return of James M. Landis from his post as American Director of Economic Operations in the Middle East...
...School's annual report, Professor Morgan revealed the decision to break with 128 years of tradition under the stress of wartime exigencies by revoking the customary requirement of an A.B. or equivalent degree...