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...oldtime newspaperman once said to Stringfellow Barr: "You know the trouble with the present generation? They've never read the minutes of the previous meeting...
Founded as King William's School in 1696, the third oldest college in the U.S. (older: Harvard, William & Mary), St. John's for the last eight years has been the site of robust, red-haired Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr's noble experiment in education by the world's 100 Great Books. Debt-ridden by a heavy mortgage, which Barr has managed to cut a third, and reduced by war to 22 teachers and 93 students, St. John's has been uncomfortably aware for the last five years of the Academy's predacious...
...thoroughly uninhibited discussion last week in an experiment by which St. John's College hopes to introduce the Great Books into the education of the U.S. Army. The idea-a weekly seminar on eight classics-belongs to St. John's redhaired, energetic President Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr, who had already made Great Books the subject of a radio program (Invitation to Learning), an Annapolis Adult School and many civilian study clubs. His selections for Fort Meade: the Odyssey, Plato's Meno, Apology and Crito, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War (Books 1, 2 and 7), Hamlet, King...
...John's College's President Stringfellow Barr planned to supplement the college's 100 classics with a new course in the theory and maintenance of gasoline engines...
President Conant will be one of four college presidents who will also speak at the convention, the other three being Isaiah Bowman '05 of Johns Hopkins University, Francis P. Gaines, of Washington and Lee University, and Stringfellow Barr, of St. John's College...