Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main problem is "intolerable" segregationist pressure. Says one professor: "We can no longer devote our primary attention to academic pursuits." The worst effect is loss of the university's best men. "I think we're coming to the point where we have entrenched mediocrity," laments a seasoned scholar. He is staying, but like others he is in a turmoil that hardly seems conducive to good teaching. Says he: "Each day I get angry enough about the situation that I decide I'll leave. But when I sleep on it, the next morning I decide...
Constellation of Scholars. A committee has spent more than a year vainly trying to find a new president, hopes to get its man by June 30, when Van Dusen leaves. The long search stems partly from the seminary's rigidly high standards, partly from the fact that few men alive can match Van Dusen's diverse ecclesiastical talents. A superb administrator, he has seen Union's faculty change from a sometimes tempestuous aggregation of individual stars (including Harry Emerson Fosdick and Bible Scholar James Moffatt) to what he calls "a constellation of scholars in intimate fellowship." During...
...education itself is a crucial experience. He conveys this by sketching the characters of others-a theologian talking to a poet in a pub, a dour Clydesider who became a monk, the tutor C. S. Lewis and that really odd ball of erudition, the madly neurotic Jewish poet and scholar "Eddie" Meyerstein...
...more important, they represent institutions that have long been antithetical to the purposes of the new structure To the traditionalists of the Fine Art Department in the Fogg, the Carpenter center is a dangerous innovation which encroaches on the supremacy of the study of art history. For some scholar in the Faculty, creative activity is in compatible with the academic concern of a liberal arts college...
Less successful is the Scholar's Lament, which tells of a Lamont-bound student who suddenly feels the desire to be "more adjacent" to a 'Cliffie. Here the humor is strained and the tone is hardly memorable. Please Darling is well done but the humor fails. The Lehrerlike Drainpipe Song is just a bit sick...