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Word: medievales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Or such freedom may be destroyed by the myopic teacher who will not discuss the great issues of the day because he does not know what they are. The vitality of the medieval university was thus destroyed when scholasticism lost touch with reality. So also, the renaissance university became decadent...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Portrayal of American Colleges Explains 'Intellectual Specialists' | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Is it not then passing strange that nobody has investigated the academic man? Surely the contemporary scholarship reflects peculiarities of the university environment and the academic profession in the same way that medieval or Zuni ideas reflect life in a monastery or a desert. Everyone knows that the personality of...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Portrayal of American Colleges Explains 'Intellectual Specialists' | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

These farces come from Renaissance Spain, medieval France, and seventeenth century Denmark. This is almost enough to restore one's faith in the doctrine of progress: nearly everything good about the occasion is supplied by Eliot House, which is, after all, more or less of a twentieth century institution. Since...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Three Farces | 2/27/1959 | See Source »

The court, in the fashion of the game, resembled a medieval courtyard; shedlike roofs slanted down along three sides. A huge net drooped limply across the floor. The low walls were pierced by openings that looked like windows in ancient outbuildings from which spectators peered out like court nobles in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off a Monastery Wall | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

"It is true that the Harris plan would work in purely economic terms," acknowledged Charles H. Taylor, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History. He claimed, however, that the plan does not recognize the importance of the teacher-student relationship which exists in classes of 25 to 75. These classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Attack Harris Study On Education | 2/19/1959 | See Source »

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