Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...variations on two platitudes: that "liberal knowledge" should be sought for its own sake and divorced from practical ends; secondly, that intellect is best protected in a community of intellectuals. These ideas are almost simplistic. That they are worth repeating in 1969 comments on the decay of the modern university...
...catering to the basest instincts of his students. When a teacher is "exciting" instead of informing, "time goes fast and real thought blurs." Course work should discipline, not entertain, and Barzun waxes eloquent on the pleasures of drudgery. Nor do the liberal arts need to be relevant to modern problems. Such relevance he calls the fantasy of instant utility. Relevance for whom, he asks, and for how long? What excites one generation will probably bore the next and transform whatever remains of the university into a "weekly journal published orally by aging Ph.D's." To speak of "relevance" and "experience...
...style and philosophy, largely as a result of Blake's prodding during his two years as its chief officer. He is a far more hard-driving administrator than his predecessor, Dutch Theologian Willem Visser 't Hooft. In Geneva, Blake, 62, presides over the council's starkly modern, three-story ecumenical center with all the dispatch of a top business executive. His brisk ways may occasionally irritate some Europeans (who make up a majority of the center's 336-man staff), but he also displays a democratic touch. He consults with his colleagues more than "Visser...
Although the editors of the News and other outspoken students agreed with the faculty, it is unlikely that many of the 147 undergraduates enrolled in ROTC think of the modern military as a low-level trade. Most are convinced that the faculty is being inconsistent. Says Hewitt Chapman, a junior taking Navy ROTC: "I think the faculty is playing politics. There are plenty of other courses that don't deserve credit, and the faculty shouldn't decide on the basis of political prejudice which ones...
...crossbones, were demonstrating for protection against "black lung," a disease caused by inhaling coal dust that can lead to illness or death. A form of pneumoconiosis estimated to affect three-fourths of the nation's 135,000 coal workers, black lung has become an increasingly serious problem because modern power-operated mining machines churn up far more dust than old-fashioned picks and shovels. Says one United Mineworkers official: "It used to take a lifetime to get black lung. Now it takes only a few years. That's progress...