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...goal of every teacher in a great university is to achieve a feeling of intimacy on a large scale." The crowd which packs Emerson 211 every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to listen to Professor Sigmund Neumann talk on "Europe in World Politics" attests to his success in doing just that...
...Neumann dreads large classes. Once, lecturing before a large group of students at Yale, he had occasion to criticize John Gunther's pseudo-Freudian explanations of famous men and events and went on to dissect thoroughly the famous author. At the end of the lecture, a sweet young thing who had been sitting in the back row of the spacious room came up and introduced herself as Mrs. Gunther. The experience left Neumann wary...
...Saxon accent reveals a rich European background. Born in Leipzig, Germany, Neumann did his undergraduate work at the University of Leipzig and went on to Heidelberg and Grenoble in France for graduate study. Later, he joined the staff of the Deutsche Hochschule fur Politik in Berlin, the only political science school in Germany...
When Hitler came to power in 1933, Neumann crossed the Channel and joined Arnold Toynbee at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He was lecturing in the London School of Economics when a call arrived from Wesleyan University. Hastily looking up the Connecticut school, of which he had never heard, Neumann made his way to America and started the teaching career that has made him a popular figure on the sprawling Wesleyan campus...
...clock: two good Government courses to choose from. Professor Neumann, on loan for year from Wesleyan University, gives European Politics in Emerson 211, and makes it sound good. Across the Yard in Harvard 1, Mass holds forth on the Conservation of Natural Resources, a pertinent subject at the present time...