Word: historians
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...long as its "academic freedom" includes complete freedom of political thought to its teachers and students, and as long as Harvard's name is bigger news than most individuals'. As a progressive ideal in education, this privilege, extended to teachers like Dean Landis and to Granville Hicks as a historian, is worth a great deal of ignorant and temporary malignment. But complete political freedom for its teachers is becoming increasingly embarrassing for this University, which must thus smile condoningly on all doctrines--no matter what "ism" is represented. After the lesson in public relations it has been taught...
...most famed of the Norse voyages was that of adventurous young Leif Ericsson ("Leif the Lucky") who started from Norway to Greenland in 1000 A.D., but-according to Historian William Hovgaard-"was driven far to the southwest, and finally made land on the coast of America, probably near Cape Cod. Leif sent out two Scotch runners to explore the country, and these men brought back grapes and some wheat-like grasses." Leif called his new country Vineland. Next year he sailed west again from Greenland, passed "Helluland" (probably Baffin Land), "Markland" (probably Nova Scotia), and came again to Vineland where...
...written for string quartet (two violins, viola, cello), a combination of instruments supposed to be unequaled for balance and flexibility. Most of the great symphonists have written chamber music as well as symphonies, and sometimes connoisseurs have rated their chamber music higher than the rest. When German Historian Oswald Spengler was casting gloomily about for the No. 1 artistic achievement of Western civilization, his slightly decayed palm was finally bestowed on the string quartets, not the symphonies, of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven...
Among the noted Europeans to be present in Cambridge are the Very Reverned Walter R. Matthews, Dean of St. Paul's, London; Sigfried Giedion. Swiss art historian and a leading figure in modern architecture...
Among the noted Europeans to be present in Cambridge are the Very Reverend Walter R. Matthews, Dean of St. Paul's London; Sigfried Giedlon, Swiss art historian and a leading figure in modern architecture: Kai Linderstrom-Lang, professor at the Carlsberg Laboratorium, Copenhagen, one of the world's leading research workers in histochemistry; and Richard W. Southwell, professor of Engineering, Brasenose College, Oxford...