Word: medinae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special. It has given the usual courses in "The Care and Mending of Children's Underwear" and "How a City Man Can Succeed in Farming." But students have also been able to take philosophy under John Dewey, anthropology under Ruth Benedict, literature under John Erskine, law under Harold Medina, theology under Reinhold Niebuhr. Extension has been a bargain counter loaded with first-rate goods. Over the years, thousands of adults-from Critic Lionel Trilling to Baseballer Lou Gehrig -have snapped up its wares...
...such a happy but conventional record of achievement Judge Medina's whole character is built. Beneath his brilliance, industry and Latin temperament lies a confidence in the success of normal human life and the possibility of its acquisition by anyone who will honestly work for it. It may be the combination of Spanish and Dutch blood that makes him so mercurial on the surface and so profoundly steady...
...JUDGE'S private life is, to an extent, exclusively masculine. His relations with his father, who died some years ago, were tender and mutually understanding. The bonds in the new generation repeat the pattern of the old. When Judge Medina and his sons are together, the ladies of the three households leave them to their own mysterious dimension. His friendships with men are touched with high seriousness. While the rest of the family are at the beach, the judge, who does not like surf bathing, will play golf or, on rainy days, a game of billiards. Next...
...Judge Medina's character and habits give an effect of virtues and customs that are still called old-fashioned but are beginning to be recognized as worthy of revival. In a cynical age, cynicism has not found one chink in his character to take root in. He positively and quite instinctively believes that manifestations of evil and stupidity are passing phases, whereas God, the Republic as our forefathers dreamed of it, and the family are enduring. He finds no embarrassment in speaking of faith as the fruit of religion...
...PUBLIC is fickle, and sooner or later it may turn on Judge Medina as it has usually turned on its favorites. Cynicism will point out that he would be most happy in a world made up of Princeton men, preferably of the Class of '09, that he is too quick to ascribe other people's failure to personal weakness rather than circumstance, that he is at times obstinately legalistic and literal-minded, that he would decline an invitation to the Judgment Day if the date conflicted with that of his class reunion in June. But cynicism could seriously...