Word: essays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...improved. Quite rightly viewing mastery of the classical languages as essential, the department gives a series of half courses of supposedly ascending difficulty in various authors. Class discussion is quite broad, but examinations for the most part depend on the spewing out of prepared translations with an occasional cursory essay thrown in, and papers are almost unknown. Something beyond this should be expected of students theoretically beyond the elementary level. Analysis of text alone, however worthy as a discipline, leaves a good deal to be desired in transmitting paideia, for after all, facility in the language is only valuable insofar...
...acted upon, the proposal would permit a student to write a thesis approximately as long as an article in a scholarly journal instead of the much longer type of essay required at present...
Most spectacular part of the book is a collection of 248 color photographs (see following pages) showing the world at worship in its almost infinite variety-under spire and cupola, in unadorned home and amid Renaissance splendor, with plain, quiet face and behind garish ceremonial mask. Along with essays on the fundamentals of the six faiths, the book presents samplings of their scriptures. Standout among the articles: the introductory essay on "How Mankind Worships" by the late Dr. Paul Hutchinson. longtime (1947-55) editor of the Christian Century. Though an uncompromising enemy of the syncretistic idea that what mankind needs...
...documentary contains little more information about Schweitzer than can be found in a very short biographical essay. Most of the scenes were shot in Africa in oppressive heat; as a result, the film's general quality smacks of better-than-average home movies. The producers have dramatized little of Schweitzer's eventful life, keeping the tenor of the story subdued throughout, almost underplaying their material. They review Schweitzer's early life in and around Gunsbach, in Alsace: the parsonage where he was born and grew up, his first schoolroom, and the quiet countryside he came to love...
...remarkable degree of competence in subjects outside her field. Books on mythology and poetry line the walls of her Observatory office. Her textbook, Introduction to Astronomy, used in Astronomy 1, is spiked with apt quotations from classical mythology. As an undergraduate she won a college prize for a "critical essay on the Greek text of the Gospel of St. Matthew." ("It was a sitting duck," she says...