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With the growing demand for higher education and the resulting need for more teachers, the liberal-arts graduate school should beware of two tempting solutions: the lowering of standards and haphazard expansion. Last week, in his first report as dean of the Graduate Faculties of Columbia University, Historian Jacques Barzun warned: "As the highest institution of learning, the graduate school suddenly finds that it may soon become the last dike in the flood. Elsewhere, the diluting of quality may do limited or temporary harm. Not at the top. Somewhere the idea of scholarship must be kept unimpaired. Clearly, the graduate...
...take care of more students, said Barzun, the graduate school can go far with such reforms as accelerating courses, eliminating departmental duplication, and relieving professors of routine paper work better handled by a secretary. But though a little expansion, e.g., 10%, might be feasible for such schools as Columbia's, a sizable increase in the student body is no answer to the graduate school's problem...
Conversation (Thurs.8:30p.m.,NBC). "The Good Life: Mid-Century Style," discussed by Clifton Fadiman, Nancy Kelly, Jacques Barzun...
...determined to resurrect the sagging silver-mining town of Aspen. Paepcke built Aspen into a center of muscle and mind, with one of the world's longest ski lifts (14,000 ft.) and summer conferences featuring greats of philosophy, education and musiC−Albert Schweitzer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Jacques Barzun, Mortimer Adler, Igor Stravinsky, et al. This week, with the tax evaluation of Aspen increased sixteenfold, Paepcke, 60, prepared to open a new nonprofit enterprise: The Aspen Health Center for basically healthy but pooped businessmen...
Conversation (Thurs. 8 :30 p.m., NBC). Detective stories, discussed by Rex Stout, Jacques Barzun, Clifton Fadiman...