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It is the conviction of the University of Chicago's Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins that present-day man can find the cure for what ails him in the Great Books ("the minutes of the previous meeting"). Last week his theory drew a lively attack from one of education'...
That had always been the Western idea: everybody had a right to speak his piece, and anybody had the right to be wrong. Unfortunately, behind the grand Miltonian facade, scalawags could and did bore from within. Last week a 20th Century philosopher tried to get at the termites without tearing...
As a political scientist, Walter Stoke, has long been working on a book to guide people in evaluating political ideas and politicians, a project which might have been useful in Louisiana a decade ago. Stoke favors no political party ("Temperamentally I'm bent to be against the party in...
No Unity. The anniversary commentators avoided saying that U.N. has been split for two years between the Russians on the one hand and the U.S. on the other. U.N. seemed, in fact, a good deal like a Town Meeting of Two Worlds. And even if the U.S. and Russia were...
Charting a decisive middle-way between the Hundred Great Books extreme at St. John's and strict vocationalist preparation on the other side of the Education Axis, the College's General Education Program is, despite the condescension of the Hutchins coterie, an inherently original venture.. Like all pioneer endeavors...