Word: libraryful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Historical Library and Museum Juneau, Alaska
Not even King himself has had time to add up all the statistics of his new domain. With a women-and-children-first editorial policy. Amalgamated peddles everything from Baby's Own Annual to Love Story Library, puts out 29 weeklies, e.g., prim, prosperous Woman's Weekly (circ...
This fall's pranks included a cowboy-style gun-fight and other classroom disturbances, including the invasion of an Anthropology 1 class by a Poonie in ape-man attire. Julius Caesar was killed on the steps of Widener, and a flock of pigeons was released within the library.
Lectures, scheduled sporadically if at all, would give way to undergraduate seminars and a centrally located library as the principal means of instruction. There would be no "departments" or "fields," and individual "majors" would be eliminated in favor of acquiring mastery of the "recognized fields of knowledge"--humanities, physical sciences...
The American university is, as David Riesman has noted, the last refuge of free enterprise. In the literal sense it is a marketplace, where knowledge takes the place of money as common currency and people meet to exchange their ways. Scholars, like businessmen, hoard up this currency and use it...