Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English Department envisioned literature as chemists envision the elements--with the help of a periodic Table. By dividing literature into six historical periods, the department allowed itself to handle the canon of "great" writers categorically, utilizing the tools of history and social science as an approach...
This narrowness was perhaps inevitable, since every instructors necessarily revelled in the superiority and necessity of his particular approach to life, and felt that his own premises were intuitively obvious consequences of the world order. There were very few men who could see themselves in perspective, and set off the individuality of their disciplines and attitudes against all the alternatives...
...synthesis was therefore left largely to the individual uncommitted student, who could occasionally avoid taking a parochial approach because he was not emotionally involved in any form of academic life...
...while the lack of commitment to a discipline could upon occasion lead to objectivity about the divergent approaches, it more often led to the irrelevancy of the material studied. The student who looked at a discipline from the outside seldom found it possible to use this approach for dealing with anything which really mattered to him He found himself regarding the academic life as a meaningless game, a juggling of materials into circular and therefore meaningless patterns. And so Rumplestiltskin was forced either to ignore what he was learning or else to stride pensively up and down his Elsinore posing...
...million fund drive, which, if it reaches its goal, promises to provide well for the quantitative needs to the College. The Program is a bold venture, indeed a unique one, in American higher education. But complementary to the program for physical improvement, there must be an equally imaginative approach to the University's qualitative problems. Unfortunately, quantity comes easier than quality in education, and the problems of quality which face the University today are issues on which all--Faculty, alumni, and students--should express themselves...