Entretiens de Pontigny records 1942-1945.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher (February 17, 1879 – November 9, 1958) was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early 20th century. She strongly supported women's rights, racial equality, and lifelong education. Eleanor Roosevelt named her one of the ten most influential women in the United States. In addition to bringing the Montessori method of child-rearing to the U.S., she presided over the country's first adult education program and shaped literary taste...

Entretiens de Pontigny.

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The Entretiens (symposiums) de Pontigny at Mount Holyoke were a series of three summer gatherings held at the College from 1942-1944. The gatherings were modeled on the Decades, ten day discussion meetings, founded in 1910 and held in Pontigny, France until the German occupation during World War II. In 1942 a committee began exploring the possibility of continuing the conference in the United States. Members of this committee were Jacques Maritain, Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes President; Gustav...

Viatt, Auguste, 1901-

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Wahl, Jean André, 1888-1974

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Hadamard, Jacques, 1865-1963

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Mirkine-Guetzvich, Boris.

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Mount Holyoke College - Congresses.

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Saussure, Raymond de.

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Jahiel, Cecile.

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Hyslop, Béatrice Fry, 1899-....

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Professor of History at Hunter College. From the description of Papers, 1916-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155498947 Beatrice Fry Hyslop was born on April 10, 1899, in New York City, New York. After graduating from Mount Holyoke College in 1919, she taught at the Mrs. Davis School in Connecticut until 1921. She then taught history at the University until 1924, when she recieved her M.A. From 1924 until 1926 she taught history at Rosemary Hall School in Connecticut. In...

Kogbetliantz, E. G. (Ervand George), b. 1888

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Spire, André.

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Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985

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Russian-French painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed (1) and greeting cards signed (2) : Marseilles and St. Paul, to John Rewald, 1941 Jan. 3, 1967 July 18 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870508 Marc Chagall was a Russian-born painter working chiefly in France whose works frequently featured themes from Russian-Jewish folklore and from the Bible. From the description of Marc Chagall letter to D. Vaughan, 1967 February 21. (Pennsyl...

Manziarly, Marcelle ˜deœ 1899-1989

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Cohen, Gustave, 1879-1958

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Après un doctorat en droit, Gustave Cohen (1879-1958) s’orienta vers des études de littérature française et de philologie romane. Auteur d’une thèse de doctorat sur l’histoire de la mise en scène dans le théâtre religieux du Moyen Age (1906), il professa de 1909 à 1912 à l’Institut Schweitzer, installé à l’École des sciences sociales, en face de la Sorbonne. En 1912, Gustave Cohen se vit confier une chaire de langue et de littérature française à l’université d’Amsterdam. En octobre 1919, après l...

Maritain, Jacques

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Jacques Maritain, a French philosopher and man of letters, was French Ambassador to the Vatican from 1945 to 1948, professor of philosophyat Princeton University from 1948 to 1952 and continued to make his home in Princeton until 1960. His works include TRUE HUMANISM (1936, tr. 1938); ART AND SCHOLASTICISM (1920, tr. 1929); ON THE USE OF PHILOSOPHY (1961). From the description of The responsibility of the artist : typescript, ca. 1960 / by Jacques Maritain. (Peking University Library...

Boas, George, 1891-1980

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Scholar, art critic, and historian of ideas, born in Providence, Rhode Island. Received B.A. and M.A. from Brown University; studied at Harvard and Columbia before receiving his Ph. D. from University of California at Berkeley in 1917. Served in U.S. Army in France during World War I; Lieutenant Commander and Commander in Naval Reserve, World War II; stationed under Eisenhower at Supreme Allied Headquarters. Historian of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins, 1921 until his retirement in 1956. Long time t...

Motherwell, Robert

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Abstract expressionist painter. Close friend of Baziotes. From the description of Robert Motherwell postcard to William Baziotes, 1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557368 Robert Motherwell, 1915-1991, painter of New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Robert Motherwell, 1981 Feb. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646401238 Painter; New York, N.Y.; b. 1915; d. 1991. From the description of Robert Motherwell in...

Venturi, Lionello, 1885-1961

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Sessims, Roger, 1896-

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Bespaloff, Rachel

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Masson, André, 1896-

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Entretiens de Pontigny (Mount Holyoke College)

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Patch, Helen E. (Helen Elizabeth), 1891-1959

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