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Germans expected Conant's appointment to take effect immediately...
...statement on the "antiquarianism and snob appeal" of the humanities included in President Conant's report for 1951-52 has aroused considerable controversy among the field's teaching staff and has drawn objections from four professors...
...professors in English and two in Fine Arts took issue this week with certain portions of Conant's section on "The Role of the Humanities in a Technological...
...section, Conant asks "less tearful hand wringing about the 'fate of the humanities'." He goes on to say, "Much of what passes for appreciation of the arts and letters in some circles is a combination of antiquarianism, a collector's instinct and the old snob appeal of a 'gentleman's education.' The academic people who pander to these tastes to my mind do a positive disservice to the humanistic tradition, which is in fact the tradition of the continuing triumphs of the creative human spirit...
Questioning Conant's assertion, John N. D. Bush, professor of English, said, "I cannot say that I recognize what Mr. Conant has in mind in dismissing attachment to antiquarianism and 'gentleman's education,' since I don't know where or by whom such aims are cherished. If exponents of the humanities ever indulge in 'hand wringing,' it is because of the pressure and frequently distorted values of a technological and positivistic age and the doctrine that there is only one kind of truth, the kind that can be verified in the laboratory...