Reviews for Catalogue Of All Graduates In Divinity, Law, And Physic (1772)

The average rating for Catalogue Of All Graduates In Divinity, Law, And Physic (1772) based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-09-11 00:00:00 Norman Nelsen There is no mention of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-10-22 00:00:00 Eric Shearin I bought a used copy (of course) which must have been the 1953 edition listed here. I was spurred to read it because Professor McNeill had been one of my instructors at the University of Chicago, actually a tutor referred by another tutor, upon which kindly he accepted my request for an interview. We sat together for about an hour in his study on campus and he answered my prepared questions about the history of higher education in modern Greece, namely the disproportionately inverted triangle of studies for law over much more needed subjects to improve the welfare of Greeks, a phenomenon akin to similar scenarios in much of the quasi-developing democracies of this era. Mr. Cyril Houle (University of Chicago professors were not referred to as doctor but as mister) was impressed by what I had written with the depth that my tutors had provided me, saying that at the moment I was one of maybe three or four experts in the US that knew enough to call myself an expert on my subject. (Probably the rest were dead or had just been born.) If it was the 1953 edition which I had finished in Saudi Arabia several years after my interview with McNeill, I recall that it was dry reading; after all it is called a "handbook". I had to force myself through the book, but my interview was a little more meaty, since he was on the board of Athens College, some of whose students I had tutored myself while living in Athens, and many of whose graduates later went on to become major figures in Greece, such as prime ministers Andreas Papandreou, George Papandreou and currently Kyriakos Mitsotakis. McNeill's helping me gave substantial heft to the paper I was writing for Mr. Houle. I recommend this book as an outline to Western European history before one jumps into histories about England, France, Germany, Italy, etc. or as a review, but I can't recommend it with gusto, until something better comes around or until one goes to a much later edition which hopefully Mr. McNeill got a chance to thoroughly revise.