Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Postholing." Nonetheless, E.S.I.'s innovators cannot help improving the dead-fact history taught in so many U.S. schools, teaching that ignores the new insights of anthropology, sociology, economics, psychology. Last summer, E.S.I, scholars in such fields met to mull ideas that boil down to one main approach: use all the new scholarly tools for probing deeply ("postholing") into one specific situation, rather than skimming over great hunks of history at a time. As M.I.T. Historian Elting Morison, editor of Theodore Roosevelt's letters and a key E.S.I. scholar, put it: "It may be that a student can learn...
...good one. Alan, the Ivy League this year has several excellent teams, and Harvard has yet to play say of them. Pennsylvania for some reason lost to Cornell last week, but remains the top contender for the championship. The Quakers are led by captain John Wideman, a Rhodes Scholar, and Bob Purdy, both of whom were All-Ivy second team selections last season. Wideman plays the back court with senior Sid Amirs and junior Ray Caruso, who has been the leading scorer of late. Eight of Penn's 12 lettermen are in the front court, and in addition to Purdy...
...army to fight invading Germans. In 1942 he slipped out of occupied France to North Africa, went to the U.S. and joined the OSS in Washington. By 1947, U.S. Citizen May had a doctorate from the University of Illinois and a teaching job at Yale, soon became a top scholar of 17th and 18th century French literature, wrote books on Racine, Diderot, Rousseau and others. A leader as well as a scholar, Professor May now runs Yale's Junior Year Abroad program, in 1961 became chairman of the important Course of Study Committee. Now, as Dean May, he will...
Black-White Fallacy. The obvious need in areas with compulsory courses is for texts that avoid the black-white fallacy. An example of the scholar's dilemma is Florida, where the legislature has ordered high schools to offer 30 hours of "Americanism v. Communism" (in practice, cutting six weeks out of American history courses), with emphasis on "the evils, fallacies and false doctrines of Communism...
...only certifiably sinful relationship-with Music Hall Actress Adah Isaacs Menken-ended after six weeks. "I can't make Algernon understand," she ruefully explained, "that biting's no use." Eventually, he retired to the country for his health under the care of a proper Victorian solicitor-scholar named Theodore Watts-Dunton. And the world, learning that his poetic passions had been mainly pastiche, soon decided his passionate poetry was merely overblown...