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Students who care for adventure combined with solid scholarship have the chance of a life time, this year. A new man is at Harvard whose vitality in thinking and in teaching has seldom been equaled since the days of William James. Professor Rosenstock-Hussy's field is very different. William James, of course, dealt with psychology and philosophy, Rosenstock-Hussy explores history (including sociology) and the philosophy of history. But his mind can best be compared to William James, because, like James, Rosenstock-Hussy is as alive and as spirited as a race-horse winning a race...
This quality is inborn, but nourished by a unique experience. Rosenstock-Hussy is very widely and very individually a man of the world. At twenty, he took his doctor's degree at Heidelberg. He was promptly appointed professor at Leipzig. He served four and a half years as an officer in the war. At the front he wrote a challenging book, "War and Revolution". It was a call to make the world war end all war. It was a protest too against a threatened hardening of class lines into a conflict between classes. After the war Rosenstock-Hussy devoted himself...
...Kuno Francke Professor during this half year, Professor Rosenstock-Hussy is giving two courses open to undergraduates, History 73 and 74 on German Constitutional History from Otto the Great to Charles V and on German Constitutional Documents in their Cultural Setting; also a Seminary, Philosophy 20, in which he will work out a comparison between Hegel's ideas of the philosophy of history and Goothe's. Undergraduate students of history are lucky in their chance to work with a man of such experience of life, such democratic ideals, such a stirring intellectual temperament. Graduate students of history and of philosophy...
...Eugen Rosenstock-Hussy will return to Harvard this year as Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture for the first half-year and will be a visiting lecturer during the second half-year. Dr. Rosenstock-Hussy, professor of the History of Law and of German Law at the University of Breslau, Germany, has been visiting lecturer on Government during the past year. Dr. Paul Kluckhohn, professor of German Language and Literature at the University of Tubingen, will come as Kuno Francke Professor for the second half-year
Professor Rosenstock-Hussy will speak at Eliot House this evening in the Junior Common Room. He has chosen as the subject of his talk, "A Precedent for Modern Dictatorship." All members of the House are invited to attend...