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...There's still a sense of family and real community," says Andrew Lytle, novelist and English professor emeritus. Almost all 1,000 students are from middle-or upper-class families. About 80% of them are from the South; of those, 25% are from Tennessee. Nearly a third of the 250-member class of 1982 had brothers, fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers and a few sisters who preceded them to Sewanee (women were not admitted until 1969). Says Dean W. Brown Patterson: "The remarkable thing is that the students are opposed to changes. They are the most conservative element we have...
...that the Divinity School, for example, offers so little to Orthodox. My own mentor, and a very close friend of our Abbot (then a doctoral student), Father Georges Florovsky, fought with little success at Princeton to initiate programs in Orthodox studies. Having left Harvard years ago as a professor emeritus, his efforts here apparently left with him. Moreover, when Orthodox scholars do seek to pursue scholarship in the West, they are forced to become what Abbot Chrysostomos calls "Western captives" or, as Father Florovsky said, "clandestine Orthodox thinkers, covered by the more acceptable cloak of the Russophile or Hellenophile...
...Linnaean Society, a New York-bused group of naturalists, this week awarded the first Eugone Eisenmann Modal for Excellent in Ornithology to Emat Mayr, professor of Zoology emeritus...
...Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Emeritus and noted literary humanist, died Tuesday, three weeks before his 87 birthday...
...admittedly a cheap shot to criticize Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith, on whom the above description is based, for being a "60s holdover. "He has been one of the nation's leading liberals since as far back as the late 40s, when his leftist leanings roused the Harvard Board of Overseas, for the first and last time, into trying to wield its merely symbolic power of halting tenure appointments. Furthermore, unlike less imaginative colleagues and students who simply emulate legends of that era, Galbraith actually helped shape his caricature's mold...