Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...destroyed when scholasticism lost touch with reality. So also, the renaissance university became decadent when, in the eighteenth century, the classics stopped being exciting and became merely edifying. In both cases, academic freedom was subverted from within, as the interior logic of the 'discipline' replaced the experience of the scholar as the final arbiter of truth...
...then passing strange that nobody has investigated the academic man? Surely the contemporary scholarship reflects peculiarities of the university environment and the academic profession in the same way that medieval or Zuni ideas reflect life in a monastery or a desert. Everyone knows that the personality of a scholar influences both the kinds of questions he asks and the kinds of answers he gives. Is it not then inevitable that the demands and expectations of students, colleagues, and administrators will also influence his definitions of reality and truth...
...danger of hitching your reputation to scholarship is that once you build a research factory, you cannot readily convert your vast plan to the production of educated alumni. For if scholarship is to be anything, it must be cosmopolitan. The scholar must therefore speak to a national or international audience, not to the local parish. Such an audience naturally focusses his first loyalty in the universal "discipline," rather than on his employer, the local university. Moreover, his prestige with this national audience is primarily determined by what he himself produces, secondarily by what his departmental colleagues produce, and hardly...
Born in Middlesboro, Kentucky--"just north of the Cumberland Gap and Daniel Boone country"--Price attended Vanderbilt University, majoring in history and political science and graduating in 1931. After a year off on the Nashville Tennessean, he continued his studies as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford...
...unusual combination of scholar and bureaucrat, Price has remarkable credentials for his new job. It is likely he will be around at Littauer for quite a while, unless, of course, the government calls upon him once again...