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...book by Jonathan R. Cole, The Great American University, refers to the University of Chicago as "our closest approximation to the idea of a great university." Hmm. Cole also traces the history of modern American higher education back to the founding of Johns Hopkins in 1876—not to 1636, which everyone knows is the year when the world officially began spinning on its axis...
Down in Philadelphia, Penn recently announced that the papers of Chaim Potok, the great Jewish-American novelist who wrote such favorites as The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev, are now all ready. Potok, a Penn alum, left his papers to the University after his death in 2002, according to The New York Times...
There is no novel so great that I cannot put it down. I made it through a hundred and fifty pages of “War and Peace.” I called it quits on “Moby Dick” after the sixth chapter on the subtle complexities of whale oil. “Wuthering Heights” withered after seventy pages. “Gravity’s Rainbow” only lasted nine. I’ve accumulated a pretty impressive list of books that I’ve stopped reading. In fact, my growing...
Novels are antithetical to the hasty lifestyle of today’s world. Reading forces us to pause our own lives in order to inhabit the consciousness of another being. One of the great discoveries of reading is that slowing down life allows one to appreciate the world more deeply. Many believe that it is exactly this ability to slow down life that has become increasingly difficult and uninteresting for younger generations...
Lanfear, who co-founded InteKrin with Mantzoros, praised his business partner and friend as “a great educator and mentor...