Word: eiseley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...graduate schools overwhelmed the liberal arts college. To balance the university, Harnwell provides a bigger ration of liberal arts for all undergraduates, notably those at Wharton. The liberal arts college has finally acquired an honors program and its own faculty, calling on such top scholars as Anthropologist Loren Eiseley. Also strong: American civilization, Oriental studies, history. By 1970, Penn hopes to start a house plan like those at Yale and Harvard...
Double Choice. Unlike the usual "popularizer" of science, Eiseley is himself a scientist who commands the respect of his colleagues. Yet as a boy in Lincoln, Neb., he seriously considered becoming a poet. He got his love of language from his father, a little-known Shakespearean actor. His passion for science was roused by roaming the plains of western Nebraska, one of the world's finest Tertiary fossil beds. But anthropology alone seemed too narrow a field to his roaming mind, and he also studied biology and sociology in trying to understand the nature of man. After graduating from...
...latest book, The Mind as Nature, a modest little primer for teachers, Eiseley argues that the mind is as mysterious as nature, and that its intuitions are as significant as cold empirical conclusions. "I have been labeled a mystic," writes...
...Eiseley, "because I have not been able to shut out wonder occasionally, when I have looked at the world. [My accuser] was unaware, in his tough laboratory attitude, that there was another world of pure reverie that is of at least equal importance to the human soul...
Born of Love. Eiseley demonstrates that understanding of man's evolution can provide insights into many areas of life. Examining the cliche that "the battle is to the strong, that pity and affection are signs of weakness," Eiseley points out: "The truth is that if man at heart were not a tender creature toward his kind, a loving creature in a peculiarly special way, he would long since have left his bones to the wild dogs that roved the African grasslands where he first essayed the great adventure of becoming human. The human infant enters the world...