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...Role of the Humanities in a Technological Age" in his report for 1951-52, in which he said "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 appleal of a 'gentleman's education...
...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...
...punishment society prescribes, if for no other reason than that he has no chance of escaping it anyway. But this is not the issue. The issue is: Should he, merely because the law, has no regard for sportsmanship, violgate his own superior standard as a sportsman and a gentleman...
...Arms, by Evelyn Waugh. An increasingly serious satirist turns to World War II for a theme and a Christian gentleman for a hero (TIME...