Word: bating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machinery [for reviewing tenurecandidates] in the last 15 years--as machineryoften does of its own accord--has slipped in sucha way as to block passage of more creativeappointments," said Porter University ProfessorWalter Jackson Bate...
...unexpected ceremony preceding the lectures, Engell presented Porter University Professor and renowned Johnson scholar Walter J. Bate with the first copy of the 12th volume of the Harvard English Studies series entitled "Johnson and His Age." The book should be released from the press in a few weeks. Bate is regarded by many to be the world's foremost authority on Johnson...
...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...