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...throughout the humanities and the social and natural sciences. This amounts to a study of giant themes-e.g., the ideas of good v. evil in Western literature, freedom and authority in the modern world, the principles of science. From the start, students read Homer, St. Augustine, Dante and Tolstoy, study the great laws of science and the experiments and logic that produced them. Later, the stage narrows down to the student's chosen field. Finally (for honors men) comes the senior thesis that might bear the title, "A 13th Century Sermon in Picard on the Assumption...
Still in print, for those who want a good historical about 19th Century Russia: War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy...
...Military Ending. When at last they met-the peasant-bloused count and the well-dressed shopkeeper's son-they wanted to like each other. Chekhov tried to forget Tolstoy's views on art, sex and nonviolence; Tolstoy tried to forget Chekhov's atheism and artistic refinement. Then each went his way, Tolstoy to further brooding and writing on man's rejection of his God-given destiny, Chekhov to those triumphs of human vivisection, The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard...
Their respective attitudes to life were neatly reflected in their deaths. Tolstoy died in a stationmaster's house when running away to embrace the life of private solitude and renunciation that he had preached so long. For Chekhov, killed by tuberculosis at 44, death staged an incomparable piece of pure Chekhov. The funeral procession became entwined with that of a Russian general. Why, wondered Chekhov's mourners, was the great artist being buried with a military band...
...those who felt they just grabbed a taste of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy in the elementary Humanities courses, the Slavic Department is giving a half course- Slavic 155-covering the well-known books of the two authors in Sever...