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...between the liberal training and the social demand can be found in the historical development of American education. The great outcry for a popularization of this training that could open up a smooth road to advancement gave rise to thousands of new colleges at the ends of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. By 1930, these factories of liberal teaching were turning more than 1,100,000 men off the curricular assembly lines, and 1,000,000 more from the mushroomed vocational training programs combined with them to glut the job market. With more college men and fewer...
Although no team scores were officially kept, the four-man team composed of Howie Oedel, Bob Brundage, Bill Wolfe, and Bob Townsend ended up in sixth, eighth, eleventh, and nineteenth places out of a colorful field of 40 entries, despite the desperate efforts of the Skidmore team to lure Townsend off the trail...
Entitled "The Reminiscences of Sarah Siddons," the as yet unpublished manuscript of the memories of a nineteenth century actress was acquired by the University last year, and has kept the amateurs printers busy since October. They have printed it entirely by themselves, setting the type by hand, and using a press that dates from about...
...volume is to go on sale Saturday in connection with the dedication of Houghton Library. While they have printed only 237 copies, the five undergraduates expect that their book, written by the famous nineteenth-century English actress, will be of considerable value to scholars...
...western world ever since have found a distinctively German world-view from which even intellectuals like Thomas Mann are not entirely free. But Viereck has added something new and solid to this rather debatable conception of German history. He has found in the Romantic movement of the nineteenth century both a detour from the main path of Western rationalism and the roots of Nazi philosophy. Romanticism, Viereck believes, is the expression of maladjustment. Whatever its various forms, whether Thoreau or Schlegel, Romanticism is the rebellion of those who can't solve their problems in the forms society prescribes. Ardent seekers...