Word: schoolmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were free "because their allegiance was to the Truth, as it was given to them to perceive it, and not to the community." Far from smothering discussion, the Christian framework of these universities "encouraged disputation of a heat and intensity almost unknown in universities nowadays . . . They were free, these Schoolmen, free from external interference and free from a stifling internal conformity, because the whole purpose of the universities was the search after an enduring truth, beside which worldly aggrandizement was as nothing...
...Advertiser saw these two Acts as evidence of growing and enforced orthodoxy, and it asked that citizens "invariably and stoutly oppose these popular follies." The newspaper was soon supported in its crusade against Act 888 by schoolmen throughout the state...
...history of art is not a dead-end street of higher criticism, but rather the mirror to history in its broadest aspects. It has by virtue of necessity, and particularly at the undergraduate level, come to symbolize that universal synthesis for our modern world which the medieval schoolmen hoped to find in the theological universality of St. Thomas Aquinas, Taylor said...
...academic chairs in the U.S., probably none is more of a hot-seat than the presidency of Teachers College, Columbia University. The mecca of U.S. public schoolmen, T.C. has turned out a fourth of the nation's big-city (over 50,000 population) school superintendents. It lists among its alumni nearly a third of all U.S. deans of education and presidents of teacher-training institutions. As such, it has been more than any other campus the creator of the modern public school...
Last week Chicago schoolmen were working out a plan by which 13 Illinois colleges and universities will offer teacher-training courses at the undergraduate level and thus assure a whole new batch of teachers. But more important than the plan itself was the fact that Chicago had become the latest recruit to what is virtually a nationwide campaign...