Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cancer Fight Sir...
Such academic lackeydom, says Sir Walter, has reduced the universities to imposing islands of bewilderment in a sea of confusion. A leading symptom of bewilderment: at least three educational traditions are battling for the soul of the modern university, the classical-Christian, the liberal-humanistic, and the technological-democratic...
...Looters. Which of the three traditions should be chosen? Though Sir Walter's heart leans towards the first, his mind rejects all three. Instead, he says, a new sort of Christianization process is needed if universities are to correct the world's confusion rather than merely reflect...
When the critics had all put up their pens, some thought Sir Walter still held the intellectual field. He had carefully rejected all the pat answers, just as carefully decided that only the Christian world-outlook is universal enough for a university. Yet such Christianity must look more eagerly toward the future's addition of ideas and events than toward the past's tradition of them. Sir Walter's hope for the universities is that Christian teachers and students, seeking "new symbols" for old values, may "play the role of a 'creative minority,' from which...
...many, such hope seemed perilously near to despair, but it was hope enough for Sir Walter. Last week, while still heading the government's University Grants Committee, he was busy preparing for his new job as first principal of St. Catherine's, a new college "based on the Christian faith and philosophy of life." Sir Walter's hope was considerably fortified by the faith of others, notably of King George VI, who gave furniture from Windsor Castle for St. Catherine's, and last week offered its principal the use of Windsor's Henry III Tower...