Word: stringfellow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...product, are tinkering with new methods of manufacture. Higher education is a rapaciously competitive industry in which small colleges compete for teachers, students and money with big ones, State universities with private, city colleges with country. Threatening the whole established order of higher education are two radical, current experiments: Stringfellow Barr's St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., which has a fixed curriculum of 100 classics, and presidentless Black Mountain College in North Carolina, which has no required courses, seeks to promote learning mainly through art, music and dramatics...
...head finally got on the platter, neither President Bowman nor Dr. Mitchell had publicly explained by last week, when 150 bigwigs from the Hopkins faculty and Maryland's public life (including Johns Hopkins' famed Dr. Henry E. Sigerist, St. John's College's President Stringfellow Barr) gathered at a dinner to praise Dr. Mitchell, speak guardedly of "loss of tolerance" at the University. But to friends Broadus Mitchell explained privately: "The thing got to the pass where resignation was the only course. Bowman was too protesting about his tolerance-and then insulted and browbeat...
...STRINGFELLOW BARR...
Last year St. John's redhaired, natty President Stringfellow Barr, ex-Rhodes Scholar and onetime Chicago professor, picked out the 100 greatest classics, let freshmen choose whether they would begin under the new curriculum or the old elective system. Chosen authors, some of whom are represented by more than one book...
...Columbia University's Professor Lyman Bryson, chairman; Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur, New School for Social Research Director Alvin S. Johnson, Rockefeller Foundation's former President George E. Vincent, St. John's College's President Stringfellow Barr, University of Chicago's Vice President William Benton and Professor Thomas V. Smith, Wharton School of Finance's Dean Joseph H. Willits, TIME'S Editor Henry R. Luce, Emporia Gazette's Editor William Allen White, Fordham's President Robert I. Gannon, former U. S. Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Rohde, New York...