Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nepalese art, in the historical sense, was born yesterday. For the ancient kingdom of Nepal, hemmed in as it was by the highest Himalayas, remained largely cut off from the outside world until a road to its capital of Katmandu was opened ten years ago. The first scholar to study its art thoroughly was a University of Pennsylvania professor named Stella Kramrisch, who, after 25 years in India, spent six months there in 1962. The Nepalese were truly grateful, for, until she came, they had no idea what was great art and what...
...central point of Sayre's argument is that the debate over the relationship of scholarship and teaching becomes "merely a battle of slogans" without careful distinction and definitions of terms. He proceeded to define six different types of teachers, from "the great scholar who can take two pages of Aristotle and unfold the connections and meanings of the text of these pages for a whole year or more," to "the gadfly teacher, who arouses, irritates, and challenges...
...grandson as well as a mountain climber, best-selling author (Four Against Everest), playwright, pianist, amateur architect, and onetime Democratic congressional candidate from California. He is also a hero to his philosophy students at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. Sayre, in fact, is just about everything except a scholar who can measure his monographs by the pound, and for that reason he was fighting for his job last week...
...cross the threshold, Tufts-where in a decade endowment has more than doubled and plant value multiplied more than five times-is in the race for top scholars who can attract millions in federal or foundation research grants, thus increasing the fund of knowledge while managing to keep themselves and the campus affluent, happy and famous. Wessel insists that he will not sacrifice good teaching to good research but will keep on seeking that rare academic bird known as the "teacher-scholar...
...Government panels he has served on, and the number of trips abroad he has made as a consultant to a struggling new nation, the topnotch professor whose reputation lured the student to the university campus in the first place is rarely there to teach him. Says a Stanford scholar in the sciences, who considers himself lucky to be teaching only three hours a week: "It's not only how many papers you publish, but how many dollars in contracts you can bring...