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Undoubtedly the most widely read review is Daniel J. Boorstin's comparison of Age of the Scholar with Clark Kerr's The Uses of the University in "Book Week." Boorstin contrasts Kerr's "courage and intellectual clarity" with Pusey's "genteel, vague, sanctimonious, and insular mind...
...Boorstin, summa cum laude as an undergraduate and winner of a Rhodes Scholarship, also lashed out at Harvard's conservatism...
Reviewer Daniel J. Boorstin '34, professor of history at the University of Chicago, described the collection of Pusey's speeches as a "desert of cliches" in which "the only relief is an occasional oasis of provincialism...
...review entitled "Veritas or Mishmash?" Boorstin attacked "the banality and intellectual timidity of the volume." He also criticized the book's "few vague themes" because they "express attitudes not uncommon nowadays among our self-conscious intellectuals" and "these attitudes can stultify our life...
Calling President Pusey's ideas "The Higher Conformity," Boorstin maintained that the leading tenets of this construct are "less affirmations than fears. Fear of the Outside World. Fear of Practicality, Utility, and Applied Science. Plus a kind of sentimental refugee-attachment to Pure Ideas...