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...impressionistic novel, Howard Mumford Jonees's English 170, and a course given by Hans Kohn, professor of History at C.C.N.Y., in Intellectual History of Continental Europe. Also praised in the Summer News poll was Chemistry S-60, given by Dudley Herschbech, Junior Fellow, and a course in the Nineteenth Century American Novel, given by Harold C. Martin, Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Director of General Education Ahf. Martin won great praise from his students for the superb or-financial reasons, and dislike the job. But a good number of these men take on the task to keep alert during...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: A Critique of the Summer School: Despite Some Faults, it Spreads its Bit of Veritas | 9/24/1958 | See Source »

Fourth on the list is History S-134c, Intellectual History of Nineteenth-Century Continental Europe, given by Hans Kohn, professor of History at C. C. N. Y. The most popular course during the regular term, Economics 1, has an enrollment for its summer version of only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Courses Taught by Jones, Tate Rank Most Popular | 7/10/1958 | See Source »

...After fifteen hundred years of victories, the Revolution of the fourth century (that of the kings and nobles against the people) had been overthrown by the Revolution of the nineteenth century (that of the people against the kings and nobles). Napoleon was born of this conflagration, and he had allied himself so closely with it that it seemed as if the great convulsion had been nothing more than the labor pains of the birth of one man. He commanded the Revolution as if he were the genius of that terrible element...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Retreat | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...well-tried program, demand that some sort of watchdog eye be placed on the schools, to insure that the best possible education can be achieved. Education in this part of the twentieth century has become an all-out community affair, with the isolationism of the academic school of the nineteenth century gone forever. The new--as one authors calls the "life-centered"--approach to education demands the interaction of the student with the community, effected through school field trips and parental visits and interest in the school. In community, after community, parents have had to take a stand where schools...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Public Schools Call for Co-operation Between School, School Board, Public; But Such Harmony Breeds Many Dangers | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

...early nineteenth century graduate looked back at his college days and noted that while there was much work done in philosophy and composition, "the chief labor and crowning honor of successful scholarship were in mathematics and the classics...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: The Start of Harvard Education | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

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