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The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification. Information provides the raw material for discourse, inquiry, disputation, reflection, indeed for almost any sort of intellectual activity. For...
Discussions could be long, sometimes heated, sometimes tedious. But when a decision had been reached that a certain course should be omitted, it was dropped, and good riddance. Then what to do about courses which were in part still relevant? They had to be overhauled in detail; new outlines, textbooks...
Invariably they are literalists and fundamentalists playing on their hearers' emotions while vitiating their intelligence and opening their wallets. These men (and women) are not saying much that is relevant to our age, but they are certainly proficient in mob psychology and frequently organized with efficiency.
As a businessman and as a friend and admirer of Dean Ebert, I was disappointed in your editorial criticizing his consulting relationship with Squibb Corporation. While I certainly respect your right to question any and all consulting arrangements, I believe that with this right goes the responsibility to try to...
ON THE EVENING of May 15, 1970, an audience still spellbound by the labyrinthine connections of the Authentic Unconscious," the last of Lionel Trilling's Charles Eliot Norton lectures, left Lowell Lecture Hall to find streets barricaded with paddy wagons and helmeted riot troops, the Square ablaze with bonfires and...