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...once knew a man who was a heroic drunk. He left mess and destruction in his wake - broken glasses, smashed furniture, bounced checks, bitter and exhausted wives. His motto, which he stole from the British classicist Benjamin Jowett, was a line he would slur grandly to the barroom after 10 or 12 drinks: "Never apologize! Never explain...
What is the best strategy to adopt when the undignified or even incriminating truth comes out? Reactions are always a matter of personal style and self-possession. The possibilities range from stonewalling ("Never apologize, never explain," as the British classicist Benjamin Jowett said) to full disclosure. Within that range there are as many subtle variations as there are shades of the truth...
...must play an important role in general education. Chalmers feels that the Harvard Houses should serve a similar function; to this end he has acted to increase intellectual ferment within Winthrop. One feels he would be entirely happy if Winthrop could resemble Balliol or Oriel in the days when Jowett and Whately walked the earth--sanctums where living and learning were inseparable and where student-faculty dialogue constituted the most exciting part of an undergraduate's career...
...Master Jowett disdained "all persons who do not succeed in the world," exhorted Balliol men to do or die the empire over. "Never apologize, never explain," Jowett advised one viceroy-designate in a famous aphorism. "Do you possess the art of picking other people's brains?" he asked another. "This is a great shortening of labor and saves many mistakes." Viewing his office as one of the kingdom's greatest, which it still is, Jowett once found something "offensive to God and highly displeasing to me." No friend of doubters, Jowett is supposed to have warned...
Balliol's current master, Sir David Lindsay Keir, is a legal scholar who maintains Jowett's old stress on under graduate minds and muscles via stiff classics, intimate tutorials, rugger and rowing. Graduate research is still rare at Balliol, but science is finally getting its head; of the 39 fellows, nine are scientists and mathematicians. The, others remain brilliant eminences in philosophy or Sanskrit-men like Theodore Tylor, tutor in jurisprudence and one of Britain's best bridge players, although he is almost blind...