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Utah Congressman Douglas R. Stringfellow, 32, supporting himself with canes and leg braces, made his way painfully into a studio at Salt Lake City's television station KSL-TV one night last week. He had come to talk about his war record...
...Utah's Republican Congressman Douglas R. Stringfellow, 31, paralyzed as the result of a World War II wound, who was elected a year...
What to do about it? Adler, Hutchins and a band of dedicated fellow guerrillas -notably Stringfellow Barr, former president of St. John's College, Scott Buchanan, former dean of St. John's, and Mark Van Doren, English professor at Columbia-have answered long & loud: make U.S. education truly liberal. That means, according to Adler, that 1) American college professors must commit academic hara-kiri by giving up their specialized fields; they should be able to teach anything in the liberal arts; 2) the scientific method should stick to science, and leave to philosophy the job of determining matters...
This sort of criticism, says Smith, does not come from any single source. It comes partly from such prominent educators as "Robert M. Hutchins, Bernard Iddings Bell, Jacques Barzun, Mark Van Doren, Stringfellow Barr, and the Harvard Committee-all nonfascist sources ... It comes from school people themselves, most of them humble teachers in the field . . . and it comes from thousands of parents who want to cooperate with the schools but are rebuffed by superprofessional educators when they have the temerity to question theory . . ." To prove his point, Mortimer Smith had a few exhibits of his own-letters he received after...
...sound like conversation, not a debate," says Producer Crothers, "as though the listener had sneaked up on the men at a cocktail party and overheard them." Nowadays the panel speakers shift every week, but back in 1940, when Invitation started as an offshoot of the "Great Books" program of Stringfellow Barr, former president of Maryland's St. John's College, there was a permanent panel. It was abandoned, says Crothers, because after a few months "everyone had explored everyone else's mind - it was as if they had been closeted in an igloo...