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During Harvard Summer School, when Frank O'Connor discusses the nineteenth century novel, he does not disguise the fact that the only thing he thinks worthy of writing about is "the common feelings of common life." Esetericism he says may be perfectly well written but it has no more substance than a toy balloon. But O'Conner, unlike the great majority of realists, carries his theory further than his material. His is a common, clean response to the common feelings of common life. There are few, if any, symbols in his work; there is no prediction of doom. Frequently...
This sense of urgency fills his lectures, and has made even his course on abstruse nineteenth century philosophy remarkably popular. While Taubes demands hard work from his students he is unrelenting in setting his own schedule. In addition to his philosophy course, Taubes teachers a Humanities course in "Freedom and the Spirit of Heresy," a Humanities 3 section, and writes prolifically on Hobbes, Rousseau and Hegel...
...great historian Carl Bocker, who taught at Cornell for many years, went so far as to say that White probably had a greater influence on American higher education in the nineteenth century than any other person. That was high praise, since among White's contemporaries were Charles W. Eliot who began his reform of Harvard in 1869, Daniel G. Gilman, who helped to found Johns Hopkins in 1875, and John W. Burgess, who began to introduce radical changes in the curriculum at Columbia a few years later...
...historian, says the Guide, must weight the prejudices of past writers before accepting their statements as true. Settlers in the seventeenth century, attempting to stimulate immigration and investment "mingled hopes with realities and fiction with fact." Puritans and Quakers alike credited abnormal occurrences with excessive importance. Eighteenth and nineteenth century historians emphasized politics, often to the exclusion of vital social and cultural information...
...team with the first five men shooting under 75, didn't give Brown a chance and walloped the Bruins, 6 to 1 at Dedham. Even with his 75, however, Bruce Thurmond dropped his match 2 and 1. Jim Jones also ran into some trouble, but holed out on the nineteenth to win one up. Ted Cooney and Bill McAllister had little trouble and both won their matches 7 and 6. Cooney didn't play his match out, but was four under par when he quit playing on the twelfth hole...