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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...
...Professor Norton, of the human. In these two culture courses the speaker gave so much that there was little left for the hearers to do except to wonder, to enjoy, and to grow. Students accordingly flocked around in such numbers and eagerness as we read attended the lectures of Abelard. To be properly nourished, each age needs something that is not grown on its own soil. Besides the nutrition that is "timely," a little of that on which our forefathers fed keeps up the continuity of the stock. The methods of Mr. Norton were superbly out of date...
ENGLISH 7.- Reading. Pope. First Pastoral: Spring; Windsor Forest; An Essay on Criticism; The Rape of the Lock; Elvira to Abelard; Prologue to Cato; The Dunciad, Books...
...from theology. Aristotle and the awakening intellect of the eleventh century were the main causes of this. Two classes of minds at this time divided the church - the pious, devout belivers (such as St. Bernard), who needed no reasons for their faith, and the polemic speculative divine, (such as Abelard), who wished to make theology rational. Second, the system of conferring degrees, after appropriate trials. These were at first simply a license to teach. Third, the formal organization of the primitive university. Europe was unsettled; even in the capitals, the civil power was often unhinged. Wherever multitudes came together there...
...good), Efficient (bad), Final (very bad), first formulated by the great Stagirite. ???en ???thre came a new man, who said that there were not enough, and added a fifth, the Lost Cause (worst of all). This man was St. Behoene, a celebrated physicist (who flourished in the time of Abelard and Heloise), canonized on account of his broad charity for all who held opinions different from his own. His bones now rest quietly in the little Monastery of Beck, a place still famous for the piety and erudition of the occupants...