Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Higher learning in America has traditionally revolved around the prestige of the erudite scholar and his note-taking pedagogy. This academic ideal pictures a band of scholars in the libraries, doing research, composing reports on this research in the form of lectures, and mimeographing lists of books which relate to their investigation. On the receiving end of this verbal transaction should be an intellectual student, attentively copying the scholar's words into his notebook, and diligently tracing the outlines of his reading into a well-foonoted typescript or bluebook...
...Know the truth, and it shall make you free." According to this theory, the job of the university is to promote knowledge and wisdom, to guard our cultural heritage much as a primitive priest guards the tribal legends. The scholar's job is to record and to order the hopes and fears, facts and fancies, anecdotes and dreams, which compose our cultural mythology. Even more important, he must keep adapting this legacy to the demands of a fluid society. The ritual called "research and publication" is thus the scholar's way of keeping the myth up to date...
...most common and most influential version of the "clear-thinking" justification for higher education revolves around the breadth of perspective which undergraduates are supposed to acquire from exposure to new student and faculty attitudes. It is common to suppose that scholars have almost unlimited horizons and that they communicate the magnitude of their vision to their students. Yet the very commitment of the scholar to veritas, while it lengthens his view in some directions, also blinds him to broad expanses of human experience...
Adams: G.M. National Scholar; Varsity Lightweight Crew, Captain; U.S. and Henley Championship Stroke; Varsity Club, Undergraduate Secretary; Harvard Band; Hasty Pudding...
...former Rhodes Scholar and vice-president of the Ford Foundation; the new Dean was the winner of the Price-Laski debates...