Word: nov
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Lowell House will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a tablecloth dinner for House members and guests of Master Elliott Perkins '23 on Nov...
...Corps of Discovery." Their objective was to explore the newly acquired territory of the Louisiana Purchase and find a route from the Missouri to the Columbia River, over which the rich fur trade of the Northwest might be diverted from British Canada to the U.S. . Eighteen months later -on Nov. 15, 1805- they reached the Pacific Ocean. This month Lewiston, Idaho, and cities of the Northwest in the valleys of the Clearwater, Snake and Columbia Rivers, are observing the 150th anniversary of the Lewis & Clark Expedition...
...believes that U.S. schools are teaching too much trivia can get inspiration and support from Historian Arthur E. Bestor of the University of Illinois, who is a sort of self-appointed conscience of U.S. education. Professor Bestor stirred up angry storms of controversy with his Educational Wastelands (TIME. Nov. 16, 1953), an extensive, documented attack on the "narrow group of specialists in pedagogy" who, Bestor claims, control U.S. schools. Those who thought that Wastelands was his final word of denunciation did not reckon on Bestor's persistency-or his thoroughness...
...Notably Turning Wheels (TIME, Nov. 8, 1937), Against These Three (July...
...outwardly, as gay and waltzy as 19th century Austria could produce the stark theories and dark case histories of Vienna's Dr. Sigmund Freud. Austria's late Novelist Robert Musil, known in the U.S. for his ponderously brilliant masterpiece, The Man Without Qualities (TIME, June 8, 1953; Nov. 15, 1954), had a sharp eye for the moral decay behind Vienna's comfy façades. His first novel, brought out in 1906 and now published in the U.S. for the first time, lights up some nasty corners of adolescence in an aristocratic military school just like...