Word: benezet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possibility that U.S. institutes of higher learning might eventually interlock into one big nationwide university, conclude that the consortium is the key to academic survival for small liberal-arts colleges. "There is no question that we are in for a permanent era of big higher education," said Louis Benezet, president of the Claremont Graduate School and University Center. "The nice little quiet campus that talks about the eternal verities is going to be passed over...
...MULTIVERSITY: "When the great questions are asked and society turns to its learned men, there is something lacking in the answer, 'Well it depends upon which one of us you want to ask.' "-Claremont Graduate School President Louis T. Benezet at the University of Colorado...
...long ago, grownups bewailed the laziness of U.S. high school students. Now the cry is: "Why do they work so hard and worry so much about getting into college?" In a recent speech titled "A Dull Boy Is Jack," Colorado College President Louis T. Benezet warned that high school is fast becoming a "cramming session" in which the chief dynamic is "quite simply: more." The once lusty word "excellence," writes Harvard Psychologist David C. McClelland, now means only "the ability to take examinations and get good grades in school." As alarmists see it, a strictly academic "meritocracy" is breeding bloodless...