Word: barzun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opposing view was expressed last week by Professor Jacques Barzun, former provost of Columbia University, who complained that universities are so involved in action projects that they are turning into "public utilities" instead of scholarly institutions. "The university is getting to resemble the Red Cross, with direct help to whoever is suffering...
...surrendered it to a committee for completion. It was a rash decision, as General Motors' Charles F. Kettering could have told them. "If you want to kill any idea in the world today," he once said, "get a committee working on it." This committee was headed by Jacques Barzun, Columbia University's dean of faculty, who asked four-educators and a poet to help...
Later-Life Influence. At Columbia, Historian Dwight Miner, 61, carries with zest and buoyancy the weighty responsibility of teaching that college's long-famed course in contemporary civilization, following the tracks of such illustrious predecessors as Rexford Guy Tugwell and Jacques Barzun. Creeping, leaping, lolling his head like a cow, he tries to span everything from the Magna Carta to World...
...that James Bond has developed into the biggest masscult hero of the decade has given serious pause to such as Britain's Novelist Kingsley Amis who ranks Fleming "with those demigiants of an earlier day, Jules Verne, Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle"; and to Columbia's Jacques Barzun, who deplores "the studies by academic critics who have argued over Fleming's morals and philosophies...
...Master of Kirkland House; John Coolidge '35, director of the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum; Philip Hofer, free, white and '21, Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts in the College Library; Governor John A. Volpe; Msgr. Francis J. Lally, editor of the Pilot, organ of the archdiocese; Jacques Barzun; Gov. Elliot Richardson '41; and the CRIMSON's long shot, Dr. Roy Orval Greep, Dean of the School of Dental Medicine. Dean Greep will receive a D.D.S...