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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Afterglow. The problem, in Schlesinger's view, involves more than the Civil War alone. It "raises basic questions about the whole modern view of history ... I cannot escape the feeling that the vogue of revisionism is connected with the modern tendency to seek in optimistic sentimentalism an escape from the severe demands of moral decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tragedy of History | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Carnegie Project will seek "to codify previous study on the subject." Professor Parsons said, and "to bring out areas of agreement." At present, he reported, difficulties arise because experts in the different divisions of Social Relations see a subject from opposite perspectives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Social Relations Dept. Will Study Its Program | 10/18/1949 | See Source »

...psychologist," Professor Persons said, "tends to analyze a problem of society in terms of the individual, while a sociologist may view it as a group phenomenon." The program will seek to overcome this friction "resulting from the different intellectual backgrounds of the divisions of Social Relations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Social Relations Dept. Will Study Its Program | 10/18/1949 | See Source »

Hesse is plainly smiling at all ivory-tower intellectuals, all tight little groups that seek salvation by separateness. Joseph Knecht apparently learned his lesson just in time. "We're all in this together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Master of the Game | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Professor John Finch of Dartmouth College, the Executive Director of the Seminar, will lead the money raising campaign. He will be assisted in the United States by past and present members of the Seminar faculty and staff. Former students will seek financial support for the Seminar in England, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Holland, and Belgium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salzburg Seminar Sets $300,000 as Fund Goal | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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