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What to do about it? Adler, Hutchins and a band of dedicated fellow guerrillas -notably Stringfellow Barr, former president of St. John's College, Scott Buchanan, former dean of St. John's, and Mark Van Doren, English professor at Columbia-have answered long & loud: make U.S. education truly liberal. That means, according to Adler, that 1) American college professors must commit academic hara-kiri by giving up their specialized fields; they should be able to teach anything in the liberal arts; 2) the scientific method should stick to science, and leave to philosophy the job of determining matters...
...group chose Hugh J. Schwartzberg '53 and John R. Rodman '54 as cochairmen, and Thomas C. Barr '54 as secretary...
This sort of criticism, says Smith, does not come from any single source. It comes partly from such prominent educators as "Robert M. Hutchins, Bernard Iddings Bell, Jacques Barzun, Mark Van Doren, Stringfellow Barr, and the Harvard Committee-all nonfascist sources ... It comes from school people themselves, most of them humble teachers in the field . . . and it comes from thousands of parents who want to cooperate with the schools but are rebuffed by superprofessional educators when they have the temerity to question theory . . ." To prove his point, Mortimer Smith had a few exhibits of his own-letters he received after...
...retailer. On vacations from college, he trekked through Japan, Manchuria and Russia, taking motion pictures which were later used by the MARCH OF TIME. After receiving his degree in liberal arts with the class of 1936, he went to work as an $18-a-week stock boy at Famous-Barr, spent his spare time playing in tennis tournaments in Missouri, where he was a top-ranked player, started a modern art collection now considered one of St. Louis' best. Gradually, Buster May rose to assistant buyer and assistant merchandise manager in Famous-Barr's basement...
After a wartime stint in the Navy (he came out a lieutenant commander), May was made vice president and secretary of the May Company. Three years ago he became manager of Famous-Barr's $3,000,000 new store in suburban Clayton, and last year the $100,000-a-year general manager of the company's two St. Louis stores. As president of the 24-store, nine-city May chain, Buster will boss an operation that last year had record sales of $417 million. Said father Morton J. May, 67, who is stepping up to chairman: "He likes...