Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sympathies to Berkeley's Haller, who seems to have fallen under the random eye of your report on college teaching, under the heading "Harsh Judgments." As a Berkeley student, I found Dr. Haller a fine teacher and a serious scholar. Neither he nor his students seemed "bored." I mention this merely to indicate how difficult it is to say what is, and what is not, good college teaching. Students lap up flair, but too often they are too dull or too lazy to sense depth...
...role of the intellectual in the complex society of 1966. He argued equably that dedicated men of education must indeed search for the truth but must also understand that if the truth does not conform with their opinions, truth itself is not altered. Said Johnson: "More than one scholar has learned how deeply frustrating it is to try to bring purist approaches to a highly impure problem. They have learned that criticism is one thing, diplomacy another. They have learned to fear dogmatism in the classroom as well as in the capital...
...childhood friends, South African Attorney Abraham Fischer seemed destined for great things. The son of a former judge-president of the Orange Free State, Fischer studied at the best schools, went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, displayed a keen mind and a deep social conscience. Last week, Fischer stood in the dock of the Pretoria Palace of Justice, charged with 15 counts of Communist activity and conspiring to commit sabotage, fraud and forgery under South Africa's Suppression of Communism...
...Chicago students, the sit-in seemed like much ado about nothing. The university's administration, like that of most U.S. schools, gives grade information to draft boards only on the request of the students concerned. And if a student could not thus prove himself a deferrable brilliant scholar, starting May 14, he could take the Selective Service System's Qualification Test, which many high school seniors could pass. The Chicago sit-in leaders held that the university, by not refusing cooperation with draft boards, is implicitly backing the war in Viet Nam. Beadle's nonbelligerent response showed...
Fountains for Pleasure. By inclination, James Rorimer was equally the scholar, with a liking for privacy, but his position as head of the Met placed him at the epicenter of the museum explosion that saw the Met's attendance during his decade of direction soar to more than 7,000,000 visitors annually. In response, Rorimer turned builder. He added a 150,000-volume art library, reopened 43 newly air-conditioned galleries, expanded exhibition space by 41% to a total of 20 acres. All the while, he had to preside over a staff of 600 and administer a budget...