Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead of finding the kind of teacher who seeks what Harvard College Dean John Monro calls "a mind-to-mind confrontation" with students, undergraduates often stare across 30 rows of seats at a listless scholar reading from his own textbook and begrudging the time spent away from his esoteric research. In smaller classes, students are likely to meet some harassed teaching assistant absorbed in his specialized graduate studies, sometimes not even teaching in his own sphere of knowledge. "We have sought out ability with football quarterbacks, we are beginning to do it with executives and musicians, but we haven...
...world beyond their classrooms. Every teacher needs time to reflect and explore the frontiers of his field if he is to keep his teaching fresh. But whether all kinds of research always help teaching is problematical. Too often, says University of Utah English Chairman Kenneth Eble, scholarly magazines are established merely so that they can be "sent to editors of other magazines," and the scholar's great goal is to "write enough books about other people to become, well within his lifetime, the subject of still other people's books...
...issue that will be of interest chiefly at Harvard. The issue suffers, indeed, from the insularity of some of Harvard's more inbred magazines; the subject is "The University and the Arts," but the contributors do not include an artist who is not associated with a university, or a scholar who does not consider himself an artist or impresario. Only two contributors have no immediate connection with Harvard...
Ullmann is a literary critic and a scholar in linguistics. Among his critical studies are several works on French novelists of the turn of the century. His most recent books include Language and Style: collected Papers (1964), The Image in the Modern French Novel (1960), and Style in the French Novel...
William L. Moran S.J. will become lecturer in Assyriology in July. Moran is a scholar in cuneiform studies...