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Bible of the medieval schoolmen was Aristotle; when herbalists began to list plants unmentioned by him, Aristotle's omniscience was first challenged. The first microscopists - Malpighi, Swammerdam, Leeuwenhoek-added their heretical testimony. With Buffon and Reaumur, 18th Century France temporarily captured the blue ribbon of Science. Then Sweden's Linnaeus revolutionized the study of nature by his field-trip to Lapland, gave the world the Linnaean system, the first great attempt to classify plants. The unconsidered Lamarck, with his theory of ''the inheritance of acquired characteristics," was the forerunner of the evolutionists...
...interested in research than in teaching, he said, should be shunted off to special "research institutes," set free to explore "fundamental problems in metaphysics, social science, and natural science." President Hutchins also thought that universities in search of "clear and distinct ideas" might do well to revive the medieval schoolmen's trivium of rhetoric, grammar and logic, teach the young "the two most important elements of man as man, language and reason...
...liquor consumption at the auditorium bar, you fail to mention there were several hundred commercial exhibits on the same floor level, with over a thousand salesmen representing many firms selling school supplies and equipment. I was constantly mingling with schoolmen and failed to notice at anytime a colleague with symptoms of indulgence. At least the outward manifestation was not comparable to the American Legion convention you mention...
...schoolmen let salesmen do all the hard-drinking at the St. Louis auditorium bar during the N. E. A. convention, TIME stands corrected...
...Boys call him "The Drip." Once a year the publicity-wise Rector submits a report addressed to his trustees but intended for outside consumption. Progressive in their outlook, disarming in their frankness, Dr. Drury's reports have become famed. Repeated last week was the curious spectacle of private schoolmen reading the annual report of the headmaster of one of the least progressive schools and finding therein some of the most progressive views. Excerpts: ¶ "Not at present are we a great school in the sense of producing animated thinkers. . . . An amazing devotion marks the master of St. Paul...