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...discussion of the roots of contemporary liberal education, Pusey identified two educational ideas which emerged in the nineteenth century to alter the traditional concept of education as the transmission of a relatively fixed body of knowledge...
...Some Negroes have altogether lost faith in America and in their Christian concept of brotherhood," Handlin said, citing the growth of the Black Muslims and the disillusionment of Negro intellectuals such as James Baldwin...
...conversation, Boring keeps returning to two topics: "the great E. B. Titchener," the magnetic tyrant of psychology at Cornell early in this century; and the Zeitgeist, a concept he uses to explain his extraordinary personal influence in the history of Harvard psychology...
...concept of the Zeitgeist can be a great palliative to Boring, as well as explanation. "I don't think President Pusey understands what is going on in psychology, though Buck did and Bundy was wonderful about it. But Pusey has wanted very much to have this new building and has guided the Corporation to support it. So I don't share the bitterness and contempt I hear for the President. (Dr. Skinner is upset about the support of religion). Beebe-Center--a man who did the work of ten--used to say, 'Eliot is a University man, Lowell...
...made the most telling points against the philosophy of the center-left coalition and its schemes for more centralized government planning. He did not accuse the apertura's backers of being Communists, because they are not. But he bluntly stated the fear of many that the concept will in the long run make things easier for the Communists. "The big, positive things call for courage and a new political approach," he cried. "Taken together, they add up to an all-out fight against Communism . . . The opening to the left is founded on political ambiguity and a mistaken program. Both...