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Education in America

The Citadel of Learning, by James Bryant Conant

by William T. Hastings

The American Scholar, Winter 1957, pp. 96-99

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    Winter 1957 Issue = 15 Articles
    1. Egyptian Retrospect by Ihab H. Hassan, pp. 9-22
    2. The Decline of Book Reviewing by Geoffrey Wagner, pp. 23-36
    3. Fisherman on a Foggy Day by Dorothy Cowles Pinkney, pp. 37-38
    4. Mr. Riesman's Consumers by Robert Wheeler, pp. 39-50
    5. Portions of a Letter from Russia by Morris L. Ernst, pp. 51-64
    6. The State by Don Gordon, pp. 65-66
    7. History and Historical Novels by Jay Williams, pp. 67-74
    8. Santayana at Home by John Linehan, pp. 75-87
    9. If You Don't Mind My Saying So by Joseph Wood Krutch, pp. 88-91
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      The Politics of Art by Hazard Adams, pp. 92-95 - 1 Review
      1. Icon and Idea by Herbert Read
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      Education in America by William T. Hastings, pp. 96-99 - 1 Review
      1. The Citadel of Learning by James Bryant Conant
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      Conformism Again! by Robert Langbaum, pp. 100-103 - 1 Review
      1. In Search of Heresy by John W. Aldridge
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      A Vivid Reconstruction by Asher B. Lans, pp. 104-109 - 1 Review
      1. Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, 1882-1940 by James MacGregor Burns
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      Brief Comments, pp. 110-123 - 24 Reviews
      1. New Lives for Old by Margaret Mead
      2. Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth by William L. Thomas, Jr., Carl O. Sauer, and Marston Bates, ...
      3. Pelican in the Wilderness by F. Fraser Darling
      4. In Silence I Speak by George N. Shuster
      5. The Meaning of Yalta by John L. Snell
      6. Russia Leaves the War by George F. Kennan
      7. Reinhold Niebuhr by Charles W. Kegley and Robert W. Bretall
      8. Contemporary European Philosophy by Joseph M. Bochenski
      9. Sovereignty: An Inquiry Into the Political Good by Bertrand de Jouvenel
      10. An International Economy by Gunnar Myrdal
      11. Contemporary Capitalism by John Strachey
      12. The Negro Potential by Eli Ginzberg, James K. Anderson, and Douglas W. Bray, ...
      13. The Republicans: A History of Their Party by Malcolm C. Moos
      14. Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Triumph by Frank Freidel
      15. The Presidency Today by Edward S. Corwin and Louis W. Koenig
      16. The American Presidency by Clinton Rossiter
      17. The Course of American Democratic Thought by Ralph Henry Gabriel
      18. Freedom's Fetters by James Morton Smith
      19. Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology by Constance McL. Green
      20. The Fur Hunters of the Far West by Alexander Ross and Kenneth A. Spaulding
      21. The Search for Captain Slocum by Walter Magnes Teller
      22. Critical Approaches to Literature by David Daiches
      23. The Raven and the Whale by Perry Miller
      24. D. H. Lawrence: Novelist by F.R. Leavis
    15. The Reader Replies, pp. 124-130
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    Spring 1957 Issue = 14 Articles
    1. Trade and Aid by Gunnar Myrdal, pp. 137-154
    2. The New Compassion in the American Novel by Edmund Fuller, pp. 155-163
    3. Peepers by Melville Cane, p. 164
    4. The Academy and the "Enquiry Squad" by Gordon Keith Chalmers, pp. 165-180
    5. Tarkington and the 1920's by Winfield Townley Scott, pp. 181-194
    6. Poems by Louise Townsend Nicholl, pp. 195-196
    7. America Seen From France by Joseph E. Baker, pp. 197-206
    8. The Homecoming by Patricia Hooper, p. 207
    9. If You Don't Mind My Saying So by Joseph Wood Krutch, pp. 208-211
    10. Controversy by Maxwell Geismar, James Kelly, and Francis Coleman Rosenberger, ..., pp. 212-221
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      The Far East and Fiction by Kay Boyle, pp. 222-227 - 3 Reviews
      1. The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
      2. The Frontiers of Love by Diana Chang
      3. The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
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      The Indefatigable Journalist by DeLancey Ferguson, pp. 228-233 - 1 Review
      1. Boswell in Search of a Wife, 1766-1796 by Frank Brady, Frederick A. Pottle, and James Boswell, ...
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      Brief Comments, pp. 234-261 - 22 Reviews
      1. Constraint and Variety in American Education by David Riesman
      2. Atomic Quest by Arthur Holly Compton
      3. Harlan Fiske Stone: Pillar of the Law by Alpheus Thomas Mason
      4. Individual Freedom and Governmental Restraints by Walter Gellhorn
      5. The Evolution of Human Nature by C. Judson Herrick
      6. Challenges to Contemporary Medicine by Alan Gregg
      7. The Wild Train by Charles O'Neill
      8. The Militant South, 1800-1861 by John Hope Franklin
      9. War and Peace in the Law of Islam by Majid Khadduri
      10. Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre by Walter Kaufmann
      11. The Outsider by Colin Wilson
      12. Lorenzo Ghiberti by Richard Krautheimer and Trude Krautheimer-Hess, ...
      13. Sound and Symbol by Victor Zuckerkandl
      14. The Bay Psalm Book by Richard Mather
      15. The Enigma of the Bay Psalm Book by Zoltan Haraszti
      16. A Gathering of Fugitives by Lionel Trilling
      17. The Energies of Art by Jacques Barzun
      18. Like a Bulwark by Marianne Moore
      19. Stanzas in Meditation by Gertrude Stein
      20. Poets of Today III
      21. Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
      22. The Curve of the Snowflake by W. Grey Walter
    14. The Reader Replies, pp. 262-266
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    Summer 1957 Issue = 18 Articles
    1. Political Compromise in France and America by Philip Williams, pp. 273-288
    2. Joseph and His Brothers by Mark Van Doren, pp. 289-302
    3. Garden of My Childhood by Kuangchi C. Chang, pp. 303-304
    4. The International Geophysical Year by Laurence M. Gould, pp. 305-313
    5. Regards the Changes by Mark Hedden, p. 314
    6. Fowler's Generation by Jacques Barzun, pp. 315-323
    7. Let Love Consume by Dorothy Lee Richardson, p. 324
    8. The Red-Tagging of Negro Protest by Jane Cassels Record, pp. 325-333
    9. Suburban by Patricia Hooper, p. 334
    10. A View of Contemporary Poetry by John Hall Wheelock, pp. 335-341
    11. Intellectuals and Ballplayers by Roger Kahn, pp. 342-349
    12. Guy Stanton Ford by Dean Albertson, pp. 350-353
    13. The Scholar's Scratch Pad by Harlow Shapley, pp. 354-355
    14. If You Don't Mind My Saying So by Joseph Wood Krutch, pp. 356-358
    15. Thrifty Lover by David Morton, p. 359
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      Crime in Modern Literature by Robert Langbaum, pp. 360-369 - 3 Reviews
      1. The Fall by Albert Camus
      2. Nothing But the Night by James Yaffe
      3. Compulsion by Meyer Levin
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      Brief Comments, pp. 370-387 - 23 Reviews
      1. Alexander Hamilton in the American Tradition by Louis M. Hacker
      2. Alexander Hamilton and the Founding of the Nation by Richard B. Morris and Alexander Hamilton
      3. Race and Nationality in American Life by Oscar Handlin
      4. The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933 by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
      5. The Roots of American Communism by Theodore Draper
      6. The Soviet System of Government by John N. Hazard
      7. The Philosophy of Value by DeWitt H. Parker
      8. Dominant Themes of Modern Philosophy by George Boas
      9. Aspects of Culture by Harry L. Shapiro
      10. Symbols of Transformation by C.G. Jung
      11. Six Wings by George Sarton
      12. The Darwin Reader by Marston Bates, Philip S. Humphrey, and Charles Darwin, ...
      13. The Great Chain of Life by Joseph Wood Krutch
      14. Science and Imagination by Marjorie H. Nicolson
      15. The Lion and the Throne by Catherine Drinker Bowen
      16. Justice Holmes: The Shaping Years, 1841-1870 by Mark DeWolfe Howe
      17. The Papers of Christian Gauss by Katherine Gauss Jackson, Hiram Haydn, and Christian Frederick Gauss, ...
      18. The Letters of William Blake by Geoffrey L. Keynes and William Blake
      19. A Swinger of Birches by Sidney Cox
      20. Gustav Adolf by August Strindberg
      21. Mr. Arcularis by Conrad Aiken
      22. The Collected Poems by Kathleen Raine
      23. Other Knowledge by Lenore G. Marshall
    18. The Reader Replies, pp. 388-394
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    Autumn 1957 Issue = 18 Articles
    1. Editorial by Hiram Haydn, pp. 405-406
    2. Faiths for a Complex World by R.L. Duffus, pp. 407-410
    3. --- by Henry Beetle Hough, pp. 411-416
    4. --- by Humayun Kabir, pp. 417-420
    5. --- by Gerald W. Johnson, pp. 421-429
    6. --- by Rene Fueloep-Miller, pp. 430-436
    7. --- by Howard Mumford Jones, pp. 437-442
    8. --- by Cid Ricketts Sumner, pp. 443-448
    9. --- by Paul B. Sears, pp. 449-452
    10. --- by William Carlos Williams, pp. 453-458
    11. --- by Melville Cane, pp. 459-465
    12. If You Don't Mind My Saying So by Joseph Wood Krutch, pp. 466-469
    13. Ernest Hemingway by Otto Friedrich, p. 470
    14. William Faulkner by Walter F. Taylor, pp. 471-477
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      The Enchanted Glass by Loren Eiseley, pp. 478-493 - 5 Reviews
      1. Travels and Traditions of Waterfowl by Hans A. Hochbaum
      2. Rattlesnakes by Laurence M. Klauber
      3. The Monkey Kingdom by Ivan T. Sanderson
      4. The Great Chain of Life by Joseph Wood Krutch
      5. Lundy: Isle of Puffins by Richard Perry
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      Brief Comments, pp. 494-530 - 23 Reviews
      1. The American University in the Twentieth Century by William Clyde DeVane
      2. The Christian Idea of Education by Edmund Fuller
      3. Modern Science and Christian Beliefs by Arthur F. Smethurst
      4. Alexander Hamilton: Youth to Maturity, 1755-1788 by Broadus Mitchell
      5. Mighty Stonewall by Frank E. Vandiver
      6. British Essays in American History by Harry Cranbrook Allen and Charles Peter Hill
      7. The Soldier and the State by Samuel P. Huntington
      8. The Echo of Greece by Edith Hamilton
      9. The Yoke and the Arrows by Herbert L. Matthews
      10. Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah by Kwame Nkrumah
      11. Atoms for the World by Laura Fermi
      12. Womanpower
      13. Mass Culture by Bernard Rosenberg and David Manning White
      14. Art and Psychoanalysis by William Phillips
      15. Literature and the Image of Man by Leo Lowenthal
      16. The Fine Art of Reading by David Cecil
      17. Politics and the Novel by Irving Howe
      18. Novels Into Film by George Bluestone
      19. Mark Twain of the Enterprise by Henry Nash Smith, Frederick Anderson, and Mark Twain, ...
      20. Letters of James Joyce by Stuart Gilbert and James Joyce
      21. Close to Colette by Maurice Goudeket
      22. Poets in a Landscape by Gilbert Highet
      23. Best Poems of 1955 by Robert T. Moore
    17. The Reader Replies, pp. 531-533
    18. Volume Index, pp. 534-538
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