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Offers A History: 7. Summer Courses for Students and Teachers The University of I Brussels offers vacation courses in languages and several series of lectuia I on literature, art and the theater. There is a Cite Estudiantine, with I limited number of rooms available for students taking these courses, and the restaurant of the Student City is open to all. For full information ad-1 dress: Secretariat des Cours de Vacances, Universite Libre de Bruxeis;!50 avenue F. D. Roosevelt, Brussels.
In addition, Brussels offers a Summer Seminar in the History of Art, with practical studies in art and architecture under leading professors, the course lasting about eight weeks. A booklet about it may be had by addressing the Belgian American Educational Foundation, Inc., 420 Lex-ington Avenue, New York City 17.Sylvanus G. Morley, in The Ancient Maya (1946), divides the history of the Mayas into three major epochs: Pre-Maya (2500 B. c.?—A. D. 317); Old Empire (317-987); and New Empire (987-1697). He also offers correlation tables of Mayan and Gregorian chronologies.
And what of the computer? Olof Johannesson's 1966 novel, The Tale of the Big Computer (which first appeared in an American edition in 1968), offers a history of the development of computers as told by an advanced computer of the future. In an unemotional, utterly convincing essay, it describes the gradual obsolescence and disappearance of its creator, man. |
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