Critic of modern culture Jacques Barzun to speak
Jacques Barzun, specialist in modern cultural history and a foremost critic of education philosophies and procedures, will give a Humanities Series lecture at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the University Theater. He will speak on "Violence and the Cult of the Arts."
During his three-day visit on campus, Dr. Barzun will speak to several classes and seminars, and will confer with faculty members and graduate students. His Humanities Series lecture will be the eighth in the 1968-69 series of the 22-year-old program.
He served from 1958 to 1967 as provost of Columbia University and as dean of faculties. He previously had been dean of the graduate colleges. In 1967, he resigned his administrative offices and was named University Professor, the highest honor granted by Columbia to no more than three faculty members at one time. In 1961, he was appointed Extraordinary Fellow at
Yuk fire cause is still unknown
Investigators have found no conclusive evidence concerning the cause of the fire that destroyed the Yuk Up in the Hillcrest Shopping Center Wednesday morning.
State Fire Marshall Arthur Ramey said yesterday the fire started within 20 feet of the front door, but "there is no evidence of a set fire so far."
Damage was estimated at $200,000 to the Yuk and an adjoining department store.
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Churchill College, University of Cambridge, England.
Included in his many honors and distinctions are memberships in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in the Royal Society of Arts.
Besides his many publications of criticism and translations of French literature, he has published a dozen books, including: "The French Race," "Race, A Study in Superstition," "Darwin, Marx, Wagner," "Berlioz and the Romantic Century," "The Modern Researcher," "Berlioz and his Century," "Science: The Glorious Entertainment," "Classic, Romantic, and Modern," and "Music in American Life."
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