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...temperament a scholar or a student, then by all means go into teaching." President Nathan M. Pusey told the Education Career Conference in Kirkland House last night...
Against Fundamentalism. Since the advance has never ceased, the modern Harvard and its peers in U.S. education have, in a sense, become the last of the pioneers, operating on a frontier that is never conquered. But as Nathan Pusey has already found out, pioneers are rarely popular. They are threatened from without by those who do not understand them; they are also hampered from within by those who are blind to all but a sliver of the path ahead. For the liberal tradition, therefore, Nathan Pusey has offered not only a defense but a definition. "We are," says he, "against...
Indeed, says Nathan Pusey, one of the first things that strikes a man returning after 25 years is the "omnipresence of the book." Part of the reason is that the Houghton, Lament and Widener libraries make up the greatest (5,600,000 volumes) university collection in the world. More important is the fact that Harvard is not only a university, it is also a state of mind. Nowhere is the pursuit of knowledge carried on with more intensity...
...inner obeisance" that man must have "to something higher than his ordinary self." He despised the new ethics that was based entirely on the assumption that the only "significant struggle between good and evil is not in the individual but in society." In one sense, Irving Babbitt almost blasted Nathan Pusey's academic career. His broad humanism gave his pupil such a contempt for narrow scholarship that Nate told his classmates after graduation, "If you ever catch me around here again, you can shoot me." He tried to get a job in publishing, but wound up teaching...
...university has fallen heir to much that once belonged to her peers in Europe. In the '30s, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead was challenging it to "rise to its opportunity, and in the modern world repeat the brilliant leadership of medieval Paris." If the U.S. university does rise, says Nathan Pusey, it will not be by curtailing its pursuit of truth, "no matter how unpopular," but by carrying on the pursuit more fully...