4 agos 1929 anni - Scott Buchanan, Poetry and Mathematics

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Just after this in the 30's he's trying to move for the Virginia Plan at UVA to rejig their undergrad ed.

from Wiki on Buchanan: "Poetry and Mathematics (1929): Developed from materials for Buchanan's lectures at the People's Institute, this book was recognized by Richard McKeon, who had studied medieval philosophy under Étienne Gilson, as a rediscovery of the medieval trivium and quadrivium. This insight of McKeon's, wrote Buchanan in 1961, is what led to the "radical reform of teaching and learning in a small province of the modern academy" for which Buchanan is remembered today. The American philosopher Morris Cohen praised Poetry and Mathematics as "an admirable piece of work.""

Emilly Grosholz (https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2017/bridges2017-339.pdf)
"From 1925 to 1929, Scott Buchanan was Assistant Director of the People’s Institute in New York City, which had been established thirty years earlier to supplement training in the mechanical arts at Cooper Union. This is where he presented the lectures that became Poetry and Mathematics. The People’s
Institute had become a place where immigrants from the lower East Side of Manhattan met with the intellectuals at Columbia on the upper West Side, as well as “internal migrants,... who spent their summers in harvesting on the Great Plains or in lumber camps, and who rode the rods back to New York for the winter... continuing the reading and discussion which had started when they knew Jack London.
One could always find them during the day conversing and smoking in the lobby of the reading room of the New York Public Library, at Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street. These two groups, the East Siders and the Wobblies, as we used to call them, were with the graduate students from the local universities at
that time probably the best read audience in America” ([3], p. 14)."

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