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...Chase's preference for this type of teacher relates to the second point he makes, that the President is a scientist, and therefore a little at sea among humane studies. Of this one must say that there might be a grain of truth in it, but probably is not. A scientist could be in error on the matter, but the error would not be the one Mr. Chase thinks he sees. It is not that research is valuable to a teacher in science and unnecessary to a teacher in the humanities, but that it should be pursued in a different...
...Having been in succession a Protestant, a Christian Scientist, and a Roman Catholic, Mrs. Bertram Brooke went up in an airplane over the British channel to be received into the faith of Mohammed by a red-fezzed dignitary of the Western Islamic Association who shouted above the roar of propellers: "I give thee the name of Khair-ul-Nissa, Fairest of Women." (TIME...
...doubted that President Lowell, an able political scientist,* held scholarship in high regard. Almost his last official act was to establish a Society cf Fellows wherein 24 young superscholars may seek knowledge free from academic or financial care. But thoughtful Harvardmen began to grow uneasy as the Lowell regime lengthened. Columbia was drawing ahead in this department, Chicago in that, Wisconsin in another. Old Harvard faculty giants-Royce, James, Palmer, Norton, Santayana-were dead or retired. Kittredge, Lowes, Copeland, Hocking, Perry were getting on. Where were the men to replace them? President Lowell retired with that question unanswered...
President Conant knows how to use money to please other scholars. For the scientist: special laboratory equipment. For the historian: books, manuscripts. For the economist: secretarial aid. And every scholar yearns to see his precious but non-commercial findings in print. With such satisfactions would President Conant lure the world's best scholars to his Cambridge fold...
...second fallacy in his position springs from his education as a scientist. Minute research is necessary in science, and is sometimes useful or, as in chemical warfare, fatal to society. In the field of the arts, however, this type of research is absolutely inappropriate. Most of the necessary cataloguing and indexing has been done. There will always remain, however, a place for books upon great authors and upon movements of profound importance. But such books are the fruit of a lifetime of patient and understanding contemplation, during which the scholar has become of the very flesh and blood...