Word: rhinelandere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rhinelander is a tall man with sharply-cut features and a shock of reddish-brown hair that is fighting a losing battle with his bald spot. He sounds like Nigel Bruce, the radio Sherlock Holmes, except that he has a habit of emitting a short, high-pitched grunt when he...
Rhinelander can trace his life's activities in a circle. Born in Cambridge, he majored in Classics and philosophy at Harvard. After graduation, he struck off into law. His trial work during the '30s left him with the habit of pacing up and down while he talks, as if he...
After a stretch in the Navy, he got into General Education at the very bottom, as a section man in Humanities 1. Two years later, he and Dr. Howard Hugo teamed up to offer Humanities 4, the Good and Evil course. Hum. 4 drew so much praise in subsequent Confy...
But even more imposing is his present job. As Chairman of the Committee on General Education, Rhinelander calls administrative signals for a program that numbered 6,500 students last year. Lesser jobs have buried pedagogues under mountains of memos, but Rhinelander is determined to remain primarily a teacher. He will...
Rhinelander has lived with General Education for five years. When he speaks about it, he slides into a chair, props his head in his hand, and looks thoughtful. "General Education," he says, "gives students a chance to do some original thinking. It presents a problem for them to wrestle with...