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"Dr. Eliot's coming will make it possible to grant Dr. Stuart's request to be relieved of administrative duties so that he may devote the major portion of his time to research," Snyder added.
On his return from the war, Taylor found it difficult to adjust to academic life. Since 1940 he had done no thinking along medieval lines, and he discovered that he was "cold," that his old notes no longer meant anything to him. In addition, he faced the problem of whether...
"The time has not yet come--will never come--when the higher learning in America can properly devote itself to the maintenance of positions won. Its task is still to build, and the time is always now."
In Chicago last week, Msgr. Fitzgerald retorted that Editor Fischer and NODL were really in "substantial agreement" on how to deal with the problem. Threats or boycotts should never be used, he said, but only "persuasion." NODL was no pressure group he insisted but merely a "clearinghouse for information, suggestions...
But, especially, he hungers for his native land, so much so that he can devote pages to assuaging "the whole intolerable memory of exile and nostalgia" by a recitation of American names: the States, the Indian tribes, the railways, the rivers and mountains and towns.