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...fallible Lincoln appears in Lincoln and Douglas, which is surprisingly rip-roaring for a book about a series of debates in an Illinois Senate campaign. Lincoln makes fun of Stephen Douglas' height (5 ft. 4 in., or 1.63 m) and panders to his racist constituency. But he was always learning???you can watch him evolve before your eyes into the great man he had yet to become...
...lecture is only a demonstration of "how a person thinks about a problem," says Schorske, and the lecturer should always assume the student is "informed, intelligent, and committed. You then talk to him as a peer?as your companion in learning???and he begins to behave like one." Schorske does not, however, believe in "being buddy-buddy, or in a libidinous relationship such as they have at Sarah Lawrence." The teacher should be neither "lofty nor authoritarian," but his enthusiasm for communicating a subject should command "a natural respect...
...LEARNING???Walter B. Pitkin?Whittlesey House...
...wholesale scale. He had always been a devout Baptist, a Sunday school teacher since he was 20. When a comparatively poor man, in 1870, he gave $20,000 to help build the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church in Cleveland. His first huge gift was for a Baptist-affiliated institution of learning???the University of Chicago (founded 1892). He plunged into the giving business as systematically as he had into oil. He trained John D. Jr. to succeed him in both. And then, in 1911,** he entered the business of pleasure...
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