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...really knew the poems and the poet. We were the silly fools who discussed a poem, written by a Jesuit priest and dedicated "to Christ Our Lord," as though it were written as an exercise in sprung rhythm and falcon imagery. To quote Porter University Professor W.J. Bate, it was we who were "unaware of the legacy of thought and the inheritance of idealism that had so long given literature its massive centrality and human relevance...
...life. To act as though questions of human happiness, virtue, and right and wrong are irrelevant to history, literature, and philosophy, or are matters of personal opinion unsuitable for the classroom is to cheat the minds of students who must ask themselves the same questions. To quote Professor Bate again, "Most ask what life is all about." The purpose of a liberal arts education is ultimately to answer that question in its many forms with a mature knowledge informed by the insights of the artists, thinkers, and leaders of our past...
...wonderful thing about the place is that it has source material on so many topics and historical figures," says Porter University Professor W. Jackson Bate '39, who says he has been using Widener since he was a 17-year-old stack attendant and knows the nine-story building "blindfolded...
Most of us gravitated to the challening courses and majors. We were part of a fabulous era of lecturers (I treasure my memories of lectures by Bate, Demos, Handlin, Hugo, Lynn, Perry Miller, Mark deWolfe Howe and Kenneth Murdock) but mostly of weary section men. I found the curriculum in the humanities and social sciences well designed but many of my science and math oriented friends seemed to have endless struggles with pre-requisites and conflicts. We were thrilled to be at Harvard, but underneath our pride I think we were disappointed at the lack of contact with the faculty...
...stage is split by the audience which is seated at nightclub tables, a nice touch along with the intimate lighting. On one side of Cabot's dining room stands the bate setting of Cliff's room (which is soon shared by Sally) and his landlady's chambers, the dancing girls and the menacing demeanor of the Master of Ceremonies face opposite. But what occurs on this stage tails to reach its full potential because the song and dance numbers are, with some redeeming exceptions, ordinary. The pleasing, while not terribly strenuous, choreography is simply not performed with a consistent amount...