Word: abelard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...separation of "junior and senior colleges." This is a new theory of the liberal college. Neither the triviality nor the palpable irresponsibility of such descriptions of the new college have deterred editorial comment, however. The New York Times has solemnly frowned upon the mid-yearless innovation. In Abelard's time, to be sure, "there were no Carnegie units of admission; there was no college examination board." But we have travelled a long way upon the road of progress since those days. Our colleges have "evolved into stable institutions with trustees and bursars, with endowments of tradition and funds, with buildings...
Harvard is but repeating at a distance of 800 years the experience of Abelard. In his day, when there was neither publicity nor advertising, and renown grew by conversation, Abelard, the "professor par excellence" of his time, attracted such a vast number of students that "the inns were not sufficient to contain them." While great philosophers of antiquity had only a very small number of pupils, Abelard had, according to Compayre, five thousand in his school in Paris. And when he retired at one time with but one pupil to a "desert place," students finding his retreat followed him. "Cities...
...students of Harvard who found themselves temporarily bed less and homeless this year in Cambridge have entered with the eagerness for truth shown by the pupils of Abelard., or by Colonel George Lyon, 73-years of age, who has returned as a graduate student to Harvard, intending "to study as long as he lives," there will not be too many men going to college or university; that is, if a sufficient number of Abelards can be found to teach them. --The New York Times...
Professor Kirsopp Lake, whose address followed that of Coach Bingham, spoke of the "University tradition" which is the same as in the days of Abelard. The three characteristics of the tradition are: freedom of thought; the ability to learn for oneself; and the ability to cooperate with other men while not necessarily sharing their opinions. In regard to the first, he said, thought can be free as long as it is straight. In regard to the second he declared that the Library was the most important member of the Faculty, in that it was there that the student tought himself...