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...Flight. In Missoula, Mont., Army prison officers got a War Department release for James Barr, were about to tell him of it, found he had escaped...
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...
Liberated Teachers. Barr plans to borrow a few faculty members from St. John's, persuade some recent St. Johnnies to try their hand at teaching, and raid established schools to "liberate oppressed minorities" who believe in the St. John's way. A teaching task-force from "College X" will invade the nearest city, bring the great books to grownups who are too old or too busy to go to college...
...Colonist Barr thinks the time is ripe for a new school, both because of the "shocking" shortage and because "I'm getting old." (He is 49.) Will there be still more Barr-built colleges on the St. John's pattern? "I'd like to think this is not the last. But somebody else will have to start the next...