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...involved in industrial and Government research that it has lost sight of its basic goal: teaching students. This is the conclusion reached by two provocative new books on higher learning by authors with widely divergent views and backgrounds. In The American University Columbia University's former provost, Jacques Barzun, charges that "a big corporation has replaced the once self-centered company of scholars and has thereby put itself at the mercy of many publics." New Republic Contributing Editor James Ridgeway, in The Closed Corporation, puts the case more brusquely: "Most Americans believe that universities are places where professors teach...
...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...