Word: vann
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...importance of thorough documentation, pave the way for the current use of computers to analyze voting patterns and population shifts. But electronic aids can carry a historian only so far. "Some of the profoundest problems of history are not amenable to statistical analysis," says Yale's C. Vann Woodward, historian of the American South. "Everything still must be digested by one man sitting at his desk." And that man, argues Schlesinger, is the better historian for having got up from the desk occasionally. He concedes that participation and partisanship have their pitfalls. "To act is, in many cases...
...Still, in the past decade the Negro has gained more than in the whole century before, and in the past year, perhaps more than in the whole decade before. Today, fundamental resistance to Negro civil rights is dead or dying. Compared to the First Reconstruction, says Southern Historian C. Vann Woodward, "the Second Reconstruction is assuming the proportions of a galloping revolution." Roy Wilkins, N.A.A.C.P. executive director, adds: "We've already won. I don't mean we're all through. Sometimes a war isn't ended for years after the turning point. What I mean...
Historian C. Vann Woodward has described The Liberator as "the best biography" yet written about Garrison...
...hospitals, delivers 7,000 babies a year, has a $3,000,000 research budget. Medical alumni include two of the world's leading cancer fighters: Drs. John R. Heller Jr. and the late Thomas M. Rivers. The university also produced three noted historians-Yale's C. Vann Woodward, Virginia's Dumas Malone, Stanford's David Potter -plus Columbia Classicist Moses Hadas (see story below), Golfer Bobby Jones and the late Veep Alben Barkley...
While Cornell's replacement problems have been less severe, the Big Red will be playing without its two 1962 honorable mention All-Americans, Vann Jones and Bing Carlson. Third team All-American goalie Jung Leong is another Ithacan stickman who will not see action today...