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The following artirle on "How to Learn History," was written by Garrett Mattlngly, author, lecturer and professor oi r.uropean nmtory at Columbia University. . By MAHGARETT MATTINGLY (Distributed by UPI) For a good many years now I have been giving lectures about history four times a week to groups of mostly graduate students. I often wonder why anybody comes. Even more often I wonder whether their coming has anything to do with their wanting to learn about his tory. It's not that I, think I am much less competent than average. I even dare to won der, now and then, why peo ple keep -on attending the lec tures of my colleagues, many of whom are very competent indeed. On the whole, the history department I belong to has a good opinion of it self, but none of us, I am sure, believes for a moment that we play in the same league as the team across the way. Across the way, on the si lent shelves of the library, waiting to teach history to anyone who asks them, are all the best historians since history began from Herodotus to S. E. Morison. Story Told Straight There are the men who saw it happen and tell the story straight, like Joinville and Ernie Pyle. There are the dip lomats, the wranglers, chat tering endlessly in print about what they heard and said and did to make up for all those self-imposed spells of diplo matic silence. There are propagandists of glory like Caesar with his tricky air of soldierly blunt ness, and statesmen explain ing what they tried to do, and why things didn't quite work out. There are speeches and letters and state papers, Oliver Cromwell's, Abraham Lincoln's, Winston Chur chill's, which are the warm, living pulse of history, and there are the philosophic com mentators, Hegel and Toyn bee and the rest, eager to ex plain what everybody ought to think about it all. Also, inconspicuous in the library is the best the local talent has to offer, droplets brought to the ocean of his tory, little handfuls of facts it has taken each of us a life time to gather, tiny phials of what we hope is wisdom, painfully distilled. Of course we don t wink of competing with the great team across the way. Our main job is to introduce them, to persuade our students that history is not a collection of neatly labeled facts, pat judgments and cant phrases, but all that man remembers and guesses of his rich, in finitely modulated, many tex tured past, and that the clues to that past are mostly be tween the covers of books. Magnificent Library We try to teach students to stop listening and start read ing. There is a story about one of the great teachers of my youth. Archibald Carey Coolidge is said to have be gun one of his seminars by saying, "Gentlemen, I can not teach you anything about history. But we have a mag nificent library here. And you can go to that library and read, and read and read, and browse, and browse and browse." Whereupon one stu dent who had crossed the continent to join that seminar arose indignantly and went down to South Station and bought himself a ticket home. He had not come 3,000 miles to be told to read. I have always hoped, though, that, if he was really interested in history and not just in getting some letters behind his name, he remem bered that expensive bit of advice and came to realize that it was worth what it cost him. Even in the middling li brary of a middling town he could have found a faculty many times better than any university ever assembled, and enough history for a life time of study. History has to be learned from books. Lent Described as Appointed Period tor Spiritual Exercise By THE VERY REV BASIL S. GREGORY Rector. 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