Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a deep concern that the undergraduate years may become a transitory stop-gap, a short breather between secondary school and graduate education. Within such a concept, College education would wither; the contribution would deteriorate, and the meaning of an A.B. degree would diminish.
Pollard believes that Western culture oscillates between its Judaeo-Christian roots and its Graeco-Roman roots. At most times it is so firmly embedded in one tradition that the other cannot even be understood. Thus the Middle Ages Christianized Aristotle, while the modern age has secularized Jesus. In certain eras...
General Education, the idea that controls Harvard education, has a longer history, reaching back into the administrations of Lowell and Eliot, but it was given meaning for current generations at Harvard in 1943 when President Conant appointed a University Committee on the Objectives of a General Education in a Free...
And this time maybe, possibly, potentially, hopefully the result will be better. Better, richer than goldfish swallowing and flapping, better than the abortive product of the energetic twenties. This time, hopefully, there will be a meaning to uniqueness, a purpose to novelty. There is hope yet in the colleges, where...
Shaking & Healing. Tillich's analysis of the layers of meaning in the chief dogma of Christianity, that of the Resurrection, lays bare the trend of his unorthodox thought. Where the physics-minded 19th century sought to "explain" the Resurrection and the miracles by means of physical phenomena, Tillich looks...