Word: historian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three pages each, are written in simple, popular style. They are a shrewd mixture of interesting fact, mental games and useful information. But The Popular Educator is more than a game or pastime. On its faculty are Harvard, Yale, University of Chicago professors, such famed educators as Historian Harry Elmer Barnes, Astronomer George Clyde Fisher, Archeologist Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, Historian Allan Nevins, Dramatist Walter Prichard Eaton, Philosopher Harry Allen Overstreet. Their students include college graduates as well as men and women who never went to high school. In its first six months, National Educational Alliance has made a small...
...Seattle last week, 50 art students of the University of Washington summer school had an experience: listening to the lectures of a small, swarthy painter, art historian, moralist, critic, ex-automobile racer named Amédée Ozenfant who was making his first U. S. visit. His shattered English made intelligible by generous gestures, abundant enthusiasm, Instructor Ozenfant impressed on them the message he has been preaching in Europe for 20 years: that great art realizes the constant elements in human experience...
Elected to the French Academy at 53 was André Maurois (real name: Emile Herzog), journalist, critic, biographer, historian, lecturer, professional Anglophile and the New York Times's eminent French trained seal. A onetime textile manufacturer, Andre Maurois went into the more elegant business of writing and became a parlor philosopher with the glibness of an Emil Ludwig and the precious outlook of an H. L. Mencken. Last week he followed into the Academy arch-Royalist Charles Maurras, also elected within the month (TIME, June...
...place quite so much reliance on the curative properties of music as some of their earlier colleagues did. But last week some 300 students, faculty members and guests gathered at Johns Hopkins to hear a program of music written for pathological purposes. The program, put together by famed Medical Historian Dr. Henry Ernest Sigerist, included a "Frottola" by 16th-century Composer Marchetto Cara, written to help cure the Marchese of Mantua of syphilis; a piece played in the 17th Century to cure tarantism, popularly believed to be caused by the bite of a tarantula; hymnlike music originally addressed...
...Lansing and the miscellaneous group of pacifists and practical politicians who made up Wilson's Cabinet; to the German Admiralty, to international law, even to the hoary traditions of diplomatic usage. On the 21st anniversary of U. S. entry into the War he published his findings. Called by Historian Henry Steele Commager the most thorough and dispassionate book on the subject that has appeared, America Goes to War* is a volume of 731 closely-printed pages, with controversial footnotes swarming like bees around the bottom of most pages, is at once a history and a primer of diplomacy...