Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Myron P. Gilmore, chairman of the history department, says that, while the Literature departments may have been moving away from the idea of History and Lit, his field has been coming closer. The emphasis is no longer on institutions, on political and military history, but rather on intellectual, social and cultural history. With History now doing some of the work of History and Lit, Gilmore and others believe, the synthetic aspect of the latter has been undermined...
...that "a new, non-mystical view of History and Lit will lead to more emphasis on the integrity of history and of literature." The value of History and Lit, Dow comments, is the value of knowing both disciplines, of "having two kinds of training, learning about creative art and social study...
...impression I would like to correct: that the Cornell method gives the student a speaking knowledge of a language without any insight into the country's culture. In my elementary French class, the native drill instructors organized conversations around such subjects as French geography, French food and wine, French social life and mores, and that old standby, the French educational system...
...ironic token of the complete reversal of the social hourglass, he lives with the daughter of his former porter. He is mocked and ridiculed. A kind of Suffering Servant, he does odd chores for his neighbors. One morning, in a Moscow trolley, he feels suffocated, tugs vainly at the window for a breath of air and dies short minutes later of a heart attack-buried alive, as the first-page parable foretold, for lack of the vital air of freedom...
...unanimous vote, the Harvard Social Relations Society has elected a new slate to take office Jan. 5. Nicholas S. Hopkins '60, of Lowell House and Washington, D.C., was chosen president. David H. Cohen '60, of Kirkland House and Cleveland, Ohio, is vice-president of the society; Lee F. Donaghey '61, of Kirkland House and Menlo Park, Calif., secretary; and Walter Y. K. Goo '61, of Dudley House and Washington, D.C., treasurer...