Word: barres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oldtime newspaperman once said to Stringfellow Barr: "You know the trouble with the present generation? They've never read the minutes of the previous meeting...
...nine years at tiny St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr has helped his students catch up on the minutes of mankind's most memorable meetings: the "100 Great Books," from Homer to Bertrand Russell. (His list, which is flexible, differs from the University of Chicago's, now numbers 109.) Last week President Barr announced he was quitting St. John's, going off somewhere else to start a new college-almost exactly like the one he was leaving...
Oxford Was Right. Amiable Winkie Barr was parting amicably from 250-year-old St. John's. An ex-Rhodes Scholar, he thinks Oxford University has the right idea in insisting on small colleges. Says he: "Learning is a kind of contagion. The group must be compact enough for the contagion to occur. I don't want this one [St. John's] to get any bigger. We've always assumed we would start another college when it got too big." St. John's, which graduated only seven students during one wartime year, expects to enroll...
...college, Barr still had no name, no faculty, no campus or buildings. He wants to start his new "colony" in ready-made buildings, suitable for September 1947 occupancy, near but not in a big city. He hasn't the least idea where to find them. All he has is a president (himself), a plan (the St. John's idea, with variations)-and $4,500,000. This tidy endowment came from the Old Dominion Foundation, set up five years ago by young aluminum heir Paul Mellon, who enrolled in St. John's at 33, when he already...
Participation in the competition is voluntary, but practically all new students enter it. Monetary prizes are awarded to the winning club. These prizes come from from the bequest of Mrs. James Barr Ames, for whom the competition is named. Clubs are usually informally organized and are named after famous jurists such as Holmes and Brandeis...