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After so great a success as "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" it took courage to rescue another legend from the past and give it new life in modern terms. Galahad turns a hazard into a triumph...
John Erskine, professor of English at Columbia University, last year startled his pupils. Smiling gently behind his dignified professorial mask, he published an intimate, provocative, highly entertaining novel which immediately became a bestseller, The Private Life of Helen of Troy, (TIME, Nov. 23, BOOKS...
More than one hundred years ago Stephen Van Rensselaer founded at Troy the first undergraduate engineering college. In 1841 the University of Michigan set up its Utopian heaven of a university in a democracy. Nearly one hundred years ago the college for women first saw light in the South. At the same time coeducation became the practice of the majority of American institutions. By the Morrill act of 1863 the agricultural and preferred positions in the university curriculum. These innovations were peculiar to America in the system of higher education...
...SHERRY Troy...
...demobilize the Continental army, George Washington made a tour of inspection of New York waterways, laid out a route for a canal linking the western frontier with the Atlantic seaboard. In 1817-25. Governor De Witt Clinton of New York dug the Erie Canal ("Clinton's Ditch") from Troy to Buffalo. It was later found that his engineers had followed, inch for inch, the Washington route. More lately, the Erie Canal has been modernized as far west as Syracuse, where it joins the Oswego Canal to form the main New York State Barge Canal...