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2014.7.2 看芝加哥大學人文基本學院的畢業典禮，有意思。
解釋該校校訓如何由兩英文來源，翻譯成拉丁文及其意思/含意。
畢業證書當然人人上台領。感謝......又有印度舞娛嘉賓......
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哈欽斯的大學
哈欽斯的大學作者: 威廉•H.麥克尼爾
出版社: 浙江大學出版社
副標題: 芝加哥大學回憶錄 1929-1950
譯者: 肖明波
出版年: 2013-4
頁數: 379
定價: 45.00元
裝幀: 平裝
內容簡介 · · · · · ·
哈欽斯1929年至1950年主政的芝加哥大學鶴立雞群，與其他美國高等學府形成了前所未有的鮮明對比。哈欽斯，以及對他進行響應的那些教授和學生們，在努力對高等教育的目標進行明確化方面，就這些問題所開展的嚴肅辯論，在其他地方既微弱又缺乏活力，而在芝加哥大學，幾乎所有的教職工和相當一部分的學生團體——特別是本科生團體——都參與其中。
在這樣一個時代，在這樣一個地方，度過自己的年輕歲月，真是太美妙了。早在大一和大二時，學生們就開始大膽地探索人類生活與社會的大問題，在課堂內外辯論不休。哈欽斯很快就讓芝加哥大學大多數的本科生確信：他們確實是這個世界的希望，因為他們受瞭如此良好的教育。因此，青春期的叛逆從來沒有讓這所大學的學生跟他們的校長分離。畢竟，哈欽斯本人也一直頑固地保持著大二學生那種狀態——尋求真理，嘲諷妥協，不時還用他那獨具特色的帶刺的妙語，衝擊已確立的權威。詼諧的自貶也是哈欽斯修辭武器庫中的一件兵器，可以在一定程度上，迫使那些覺得他的大學計劃駭人聽聞，或與自己的職業毫無干系的人繳械投降。
本書作者，是當時學生中一員，後來又成為芝大的教授，他想通過本書闡明：正是體制與社會學環境，跟學術與個人抱負兩相結合，才使得芝加哥大學在20世紀30年代與40年代成瞭如此特別的一個地方。
作者簡介 · · · · · ·
威廉·H.麥克尼爾（William H.McNeill），美國著名歷史學家，芝加哥大學歷史系榮休教授。他1938年和1939年分別獲得芝加哥大學碩士和博士學位。他的作品有《西方的興起》、《追求權力》等。
目錄 · · · · · ·
1 中譯本序（謝泳）
11 前言
17 第一章1929 年的芝加哥大學
43 第二章中途公園的蜜月期（1929—1931）
85 第三章大蕭條時期的黑白照（1931—1936）
137 第四章逐漸捲入戰爭（1937—1941）
185 第五章戰爭年代（1941—1946）
235 第六章繁榮與衰落：一個時代的終結（1946—1950）
289 後記
297 註釋
319 索引
357 附錄：芝加哥大學的通識教育（林孝信）
369 譯後記
Hutchins' University: A Memoir of the University of Chicago, 1929-1950 (Centennial Publications of The University of Chicago Press) [Paperback]
William H. McNeill (Author)Book Description
The inauguration of Robert Maynard Hutchins as the fifth President of the University of Chicago in 1929 coincided with a drastically changed social and economic climate throughout the world. And Hutchins himself opened an era of tumultuous reform and debate within the University. In the midst of the changes Hutchins started and the intense feelings they stirred, William H. McNeill arrived at the University to pursue his education. In Hutchins' University he tells what it was like to come of age as a undergraduate in those heady times.
Hutchins' scathing opposition to the departmentalization of learning and his resounding call for reforms in general education sparked controversy and fueled debate on campus and off. It became a struggle for the heart and soul of higher education—and McNeill, as a student and then as an instructor, was a participant. His account of the university's history is laced with personal reminiscences, encounters with influential fellow scholars such as Richard McKeon, R. S. Crane, and David Daiches, and details drawn from Hutchins' papers and other archives.
McNeill sketches the interplay of personalities with changing circumstances of the Depression, war, and postwar eras. But his central concern is with the institutional life of the University, showing how student behavior, staff and faculty activity and even the Hyde Park neighborhood all revolved around the charismatic figure of Robert Maynard Hutchins—shaped by him and in reaction against him.
Successive transformations of the College, and the tribulations of the ideal of general or liberal education are central to much of the story; but the memoir also explores how the University was affected by such events as Red scares, the remarkably successful Round Table radio broadcasts, the
abolition of big time football, and the inauguration of the nuclear age under the west stands of Stagg Field in 1942.
In short, Hutchins' University sketches an extraordinarily vibrant period for the University of Chicago
and for American higher education. It will revive old controversies among veterans from those times, and may provoke others to reflect anew about the proper role of higher education in American society.
Hutchins' scathing opposition to the departmentalization of learning and his resounding call for reforms in general education sparked controversy and fueled debate on campus and off. It became a struggle for the heart and soul of higher education—and McNeill, as a student and then as an instructor, was a participant. His account of the university's history is laced with personal reminiscences, encounters with influential fellow scholars such as Richard McKeon, R. S. Crane, and David Daiches, and details drawn from Hutchins' papers and other archives.
McNeill sketches the interplay of personalities with changing circumstances of the Depression, war, and postwar eras. But his central concern is with the institutional life of the University, showing how student behavior, staff and faculty activity and even the Hyde Park neighborhood all revolved around the charismatic figure of Robert Maynard Hutchins—shaped by him and in reaction against him.
Successive transformations of the College, and the tribulations of the ideal of general or liberal education are central to much of the story; but the memoir also explores how the University was affected by such events as Red scares, the remarkably successful Round Table radio broadcasts, the
abolition of big time football, and the inauguration of the nuclear age under the west stands of Stagg Field in 1942.
In short, Hutchins' University sketches an extraordinarily vibrant period for the University of Chicago
and for American higher education. It will revive old controversies among veterans from those times, and may provoke others to reflect anew about the proper role of higher education in American society.
From Publishers Weekly
This slim volume explains better than any other recent study the myths and realities behind the renowned educator Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977) and the university he ran for more than 20 years. A student at the University of Chicago during Hutchins's glory days and until recently a professor of history there, McNeill offers an insider's account of Hutchins's efforts to transform an institution devoted primarily to research--"a completely new phenomenon in the 1890s," when the University of Chicago opened its doors--into a teacher-driven hotbed of discussion, centered on an undergraduate college "so wonderful and vibrant" that it "always hovered on the edge of the absurd." The wonder becomes clear in the author's detailed descriptions of Hutchins's fierce battles with faculty to improve the state of liberal education and establish an atmosphere of "intellectual stimulation." The absurdity is evident in his portrait of Hutchins as a "quixotic character" whose early success (he became president of the university at age 30) was overshadowed by a failure to specify "what the metaphysical and moral principles or the detailed content of what such an education would be." Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Review
"A stirring picture of a remarkable time at the University of Chicago and of a remarkable man." - Chicago Sun-Times "[McNeill] provides a view of the Hutchins years which is respectful and sober. The academic environment was divisive, the educational milieu was hot-house." - London Review of Books"
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