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Reverberating Questions. Though Buckley lists only five professors (out of a faculty of 1,100) as atheists or agnostics, and only five as clearly anticapitalist, he quotes an impressive number of classroom and textbook examples to support his charges. And he raises some reverberating questions. What is the moral responsibility of an American university? Has it any? Should a university have convictions-or no convictions? Should it be neutral against all religion? Or encourage Christianity as the most-favored faith? Or what...
...high feeling, there is a time of reassessment. "The Desert Fox" is Twentieth Century Fox's contribution to this period. Its thesis is that of Desmond Young's book on General Erwin Rommel. That is, it tries to show that Rommel, a fine field general in any Army textbook, was at the same time a fine man who came to hate Hitler, one whose political naivete finally led to his suicide to save his wife...
...Often the only 'generalization' the professor permits himself is the textbook he writes in the field of his work." Outside his one limited specialty, "life is treated superficially. The professor of social science, for example, is not very likely to have as balanced an intellect as a top-flight journalist, and it is usually considered poor taste, inside the academies, to write a book outside of one's own field...
...teaching, at Harvard and at Yale, is based of the case system. Rather than memorize their way through a textbook, students have to think their way through actual court decisions, and the glean the points from them. At both schools many of the lecturers use the "Socratic method." In their classes, questioning student after student about a case until an answer is obtained...
Soviet chemists, in all innocence, had been doing the same. Two of them, Y. K. Syrkin and M. E. Dyatkina, published a well-regarded textbook, The Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules, that is based almost entirely upon the resonance theory. Recently they got their comeuppance, when they were violently denounced in Pravda. At a scientific conference they and two sympathizers were censured by a dutiful vote of 400 colleagues. The charge: that they applied the principles "of the harmful resonance theory in their research," and failed to give "a comprehensive criticism of this idealistic teaching...