Word: syllabuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This syllabus of culture, or notebook of Durant, lists: ten Greatest Thinkers (Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Copernicus, Bacon, Newton, Voltaire, Kant, Darwin) ; ten Greatest Poets (Homer, Author of the Psalms, Euripides, Lucretius, Dante, Lipo, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Whitman); 100 Best Books for an education (approximate cost, $300; time required for reading: four years at seven hours per week, ten hours per volume). Syllabuster Durant reviews his favorite modern philosophers (Spengler, Keyserling, Bertrand Russell), his favorite modern literary lights (Gustave Flaubert, Anatole France, John Cowper Powys), fills up the rest of his 426 pages with comments on his trips...
...college students. If there are any outstanding weak spots they are to be found in the treatment of the drama, particularly Shakespeare. But, by and large, it presents sound factual information made unusually accessible. It is a book to place in the bookcase next to Professor Greenlaw's "Syllabus", and no man taking English courses will regret having it haudy...
Last week these words were sent forth as those not of President Herbert Hoover but of his brother Theodore Jesse Hoover. Dean of the Engineering School at Leland Stanford University. Dean Hoover, a recent White House visitor, had said such jingo things in a syllabus for students. Procuring a copy of the syllabus, the Leland Stanford Daily, student newspaper, published the Hoover quotations and an editorial flaying "militarism on a university campus...