373 research outputs found
Harlan and Marcia Conn Oral History
No full textHarlan Conn served as The American University in Cairo’s top financial officer, its Controller and Bursar, from 193_ to 195__, and was married to Marcia Conn, who taught at AUC at times. The couple recollects their experiences at AUC, both professional and social, describing a university smaller in scope, size, and budget than at the time of their oral history. They provide a portrait of the personalities, reputations, connections to Egyptian elites, Arabic language skills, and working styles of Presidents Charles Watson and John Badeau, Deans Robert McClenahan, Russell Galt, and Worth Howard, and other administrators and faculty (including University Physician Gilbert Ibrahim). The academic program, students, and leadership (Amir Boktor) of AUC’s School of Education (for which Mrs. Conn taught some courses) are covered, as are the director (Wendell Cleland) and other programs of the Extension Division. The couple speak about what it was like to study Arabic language in AUC’s School of Oriental Studies, and describe its program, students, and faculty including Arthur Jeffrey, mentioned as the only one conducting research at AUC in the 1930s and 1940s due to heavy class teaching loads and minimal financial support. The Conns recall aspects of life at AUC during the Second World War, including administrators and faculty hosting dinners for soldiers and taking refuge in a campus bomb shelter during air raid warnings, and the United States military’s rental of Ewart Hall for performances to entertain the troops and other university facilities to house an Armed Forces Institute correspondence course operation. Other topics covered are President Watson’s resistance to accepting U.S. government funding, the state of relations between AUC and the Presbyterian American Mission in Egypt, and conditions after the 1952 revolution. The university’s plans to build and relocate to a suburban campus near the Pyramids in Giza, and the property acquired there and the purchase of the downtown campus palace, are also discussed
Harlan Cleveland
No full textThe American diplomat, educator, and author, Harlan Cleveland, was a featured speaker at the Founders' Day faculty banquet (1961) [US Department of State photograph, by Robert H. McNeill (27 February 1961)
Cooperative Legacy Project oral history interview with Harlan Severson
No full textSouth Dakota Farmers Union Communications Director, Chuck Groth, Cooperative Legacy Project interview with Harlan Severson, rural electric pioneer and author of Stepping Formard Boldly, The 25th Anniversary History of East River Electric Power Cooperative published in 197
Anna and Harlan Hubbard
No full textAuthor and artist Harlan Hubbard was born In Bellevue, Kentucky in 1900. He and Anna Eikenhout married in 1943.Use of this image is restricted to projects related to Destination Indiana. Paul Hassfurter photographer.Destination Indiana Ohio River Types of Boats on the Rive
A Pictograph on the Lower Skeena River, British Columbia:
Get PDFby Harlan I. Smith.Reprinted from the American Anthropologist, Vol. 29, No. 4, October-December, 1927--Cover
Keynote Speaker Harlan Cohen
No full textMr. Harlan Cohen, author of The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into In College.https://thekeep.eiu.edu/gatrell_investiture/1002/thumbnail.jp
“WAS THE FIRST JUSTICE HARLAN ANTI-CHINESE?”
Get PDFThe first Justice John Marshall Harlan has long been recognized as a defender of Black civil rights. Yet some scholars challenge Harlan’s egalitarian reputation by arguing that he was anti-Chinese. In this Article, the Author discusses the evidence which has been offered to support the claim that Harlan was anti-Chinese and offers additional evidence never before presented to argue against this hypothesis. Harlan’s critics have assembled some evidence in a way that suggests Harlan had an anti-Chinese bias. The Author suggests that the evidence is ambiguous and that it can be assembled to produce a different picture from the one Harlan’s critics create. The Author also argues that Harlan’s critics give insufficient weight to the fact that, sitting as a judge, Harlan was often constrained in his decision-making by stare decisis and his conception of the judicial role. The issues presented by the Chinese cases should be viewed in the context of their time and understood not as abstract statements of the Justices’ personal beliefs but as a series of discrete judicial problems presented to the Court for decision. When one examines both the context and the details of the cases, the picture of Harlan that emerges is more nuanced than his critics have suggested
John Marshall Harlan: The Last Whig Justice
No full textKnown today to every student of constitutional law, principally for his dissenting opinions in early racial discrimination cases, Harlan was an important actor in every major public issue that came before the Supreme Court during his thirty-three-year tenure.
Named by a hopeful father for Chief Justice John Marshall, Harlan began his career as a member of the Kentucky Whig slavocracy. Loren Beth traces the young lawyer\u27s development from these early years through the secession crisis and Civil War, when Harlan remained loyal to the Union, both as a politician and as a soldier. As Beth demonstrates, Harlan gradually shifted during these years to an antislavery Republicanism that still emphasized his adherence to the Whig principles of Unionism and national power as against states\u27 rights.
Harlan\u27s Supreme Court career (1877-1911) was characterized by his fundamental disagreement with nearly every judicial colleague of his day. His ultimate stance—as the Great Dissenter, the champion of civil rights, the upholder of the powers of Congress—emerges as the logical outgrowth of his pre-Court life. Harlan\u27s significance for today\u27s reader is underlined by the Supreme Court\u27s adoption, beginning in the 1930s, of most of his positions on the Fourteenth Amendment and the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
This fine biography is also an important contribution to constitutional history. Historians, political scientists, and legal scholars will come from its pages with renewed appreciation for one of our judicial giants.
Loren P. Beth is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Georgia and author of The Development of the American Constitution, 1877-1917.
A well-researched study of Harlan’s life with the emphasis on his career . . . a richly detailed biography on an important jurist. —Publishers Weeklyhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_legal_history/1001/thumbnail.jp
Religion and the First Justice Harlan: A Case Study in Late Nineteenth Century Presbyterian Constitutionalism
Get PDFIn this Article, the Author argues that Harlan\u27s religion and its values informed both his personal and his public life. Harlan\u27s close personal friend, Justice Brewer, once commented on Harlan\u27s personal attachment to the two fundamental documents in his life: the Bible and the Constitution. Justice Brewer suggested that Harlan had one hand on the Bible, and the other hand on the Constitution when he went to bed every night. Although it is widely known that Harlan was a religious man, only recently has any scholar paid much attention to this fact. No one has fully described the principles of Harlan\u27s faith or made a sustained attempt to explore their influence on his public career. Religion was an important element in the makeup of the man and it deserves attention. However, it is less clear that it was Harlan\u27s religious convictions that set him apart from his judicial colleagues. One who would argue that Harlan\u27s Calvinism contributed to his distinctiveness as a judge must ground that argument on the unusual intensity of Harlan\u27s beliefs rather than on their distinctiveness, or on the interaction of his religious convictions with the other elements of his character
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