Word: professor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprising that Mortimer J. Adler, who has repeatedly plunged himself into the thorniest problems of education, should tackle this ancient theme. Already as a Columbia undergraduate, Adler nagged philosophy professors by exposing certain of their contradictions, snubbed revered Educator John Dewey by spoofing pragmatism as bits of useful information at the price of wisdom. As a philosophy professor, he campaigned against universities' traditional system of departmentalization and specialization. As an author, he tried to summarize (in his The Great Ideas-a Syntopicon) the history of Western thought (to be found in the Hutchins-and Adler-edited Great Books...
Most of the lawyers at the conference were much interested in problems of practical legal ethics, such as those set forth in a "dialogue address" between Chicago Attorney John Mulder (a Presbyterian) and Karl Olsson. minister (Evangelical Covenant Church) and professor of church history at North Park Theological Seminary. Lawyer Mulder submitted a case history for moral scrutiny: three hoodlums tell the owner of a gas station that they will protect him from broken windows and sugar in his gas for $200 a year, and the owner asks his lawyer whether he should pay. "We have here," said Mulder...
...Professor Olsson wanted to know about the lawyer's conscience. "Are you suggesting," he asked, "that the Christian lawyer all his life is sentenced to living with an anguished conscience?" Replied Lawyer Mulder: "Yes, I am . . .1 feel a sense of despair at what can happen to his spirit as he tries to balance the obligations to the moral law and to his client...
...Force ROTC cadets will be able to take advantage of a greatly lightened ROTC curriculum now required, Lt. Col. Richard C. Brock, the new professor of Air Science, announced recently...
...Navy ROTC one year of college math will be required of Regular students in addition to the physics course, Capt. Richard T. Spofford, professor of Naval Science, announced yesterday. Also, contract students may be admitted to the NROTC program with vision as low as 20/40...