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...philosophy but also from the ranks of modern novelists like Faulkner and Conrad. The students must take four years of math, three of a laboratory science, two of music and two years each of Greek and French. That is just about it. This modern liberal arts version of the trivium and quadrivium includes no such novelties as psychology (except what can be learned in the works of Freud and William James) and no sociology (except perhaps Jane Austen...
...high road to the tower, Milo meets a number of literalized concepts. There are the Doldrums, where the evil Lethargians hang out, and the Mountains of Ignorance, home of the Terrible Trivium, the Threadbare Excuse and the Two-faced Hypocrite...
Former History 1 students may recall with pain the words "trivium" and "quadrivium." These constituted the standard curriculum at the medieval cathedral schools, a curriculum consisting of grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. Since then higher education has gone on to bigger and better things. Today the Harvard course catalogue lists 53 departments and nearly 1000 courses, and the only commonbond between Harvard graduates is the ability to swim 50 yards...
With Architect van der Rohe at Armour this month will be two other old Bauhaus men, Ludwig Hilberseimer, expert on city planning, and Walter Peterhans, technician in photography. Under this triumvirate Armour students will tackle a trivium: materials, functions, design. As to what is expected of them: "[This educational method] would serve no purpose," says Mies van der Rohe, "unless ... it were to lead without fail to a clear and un equivocal spiritual orientation...
...than in teaching, he said, should be shunted off to special "research institutes," set free to explore "fundamental problems in metaphysics, social science, and natural science." President Hutchins also thought that universities in search of "clear and distinct ideas" might do well to revive the medieval schoolmen's trivium of rhetoric, grammar and logic, teach the young "the two most important elements of man as man, language and reason...