Word: bloustein
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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Humor taken seriously, heavy stress on the arts and freedom from conventional college restraints are characteristic of Bennington. The notion of all this "rather disturbed me," admits Edward J. Bloustein, 40. Then Bloustein, who holds degrees in philosophy from N.Y.U. and Oxford, plus a Ph.D. and an LL.B. from Cornell, and who has lately been teaching law at N.Y.U., examined the school closely and his doubts dissolved. So on Aug. 1, he becomes Bennington's president, replacing the late William C. Pels...
Bennington can be tough. About half of the girls who enter as freshmen have dropped out, transferred, or been gently "counseled out" before graduation. For the survivors, learning can be exciting. Bennington girls have, in fact, been spotted reading poetry by flashlight while perched in a tree. Philosopher-Lawyer Bloustein, who in his own education tended toward the "interdisciplinary development that John Dewey suggested," looks forward to presiding over a school where "an individual can involve himself in two or more distinct disciplines." He will teach at least one course himself. "Ideas are the thing," he says. "At Bennington, even...