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Great Books Education
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Roman Foundations
Events
Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind
E.D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
Matthew Arnold dies
Scott Buchanan, Poetry and Mathematics
John Lubbock's 100 Great Books for English workers
Adler chairs Encyclopedia Britannica board of editors
Adler's Paidea project
Adler founds Center for Study of Great Ideas
Erskine's The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent
Cross, An Oasis of Order: The Core Curriculum at Columbia College
George Woodbury, Great Writers
Erskine, The Delight of Great Books
Huxley-Arnold debate on purpose of education
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
John Stuart Mill, Autobiography
John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University
The Education of Henry Adams
Jonathan Swift, Battles of the Books
T.S. Eliot, The Idea of a Christian Society
Christopher Dawson, The Crisis of Western Education
Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
Harvard GE Report
Philip Johnson, Reason in the Balance
W.H. Auden course at U.Mich
McClay reintroduces Auden course at Oklahoma
Periods
Scott Buchanan attempts Great Books at UVA
Al Geier at University of Rochester 50 years, taught JMNR
John Mark Reynolds at Rochester
Grouping
Columbia
Events
Columbia University institutes Western Civilizations course
2-yr version Western Civ
Mortimer Adler
Frederick Woodbridge (Columbia) helps transition at Amherst from philosopher/psychologist Charles Garman
John Erskine invents "General Honors" course
Columbia College becomes a University
Frosh Contemporary Civ course introduced
Langston Hughes and racism
"War issues" syllabus created
Colloquium on Important Books revives General Honors type course
Frosh Humanities A,B sequence (Van Doren)
Belknap committee recommends ending CC HumAB as required
Periods
McKeon studies under Dewey and Woodbridge
Mark Van Doren at Columbia
John Senior
Jacques Barzun at Columbia
Dewey at Columbia
John Erskine
Lionel Trilling
FJE Woodbridge
Stanford
Events
Stanford Canon War erupts for two years
Periods
Stanford Western Civ #1
Stanford "Western Culture" Course
Stanford C.I.V. course
St John's
Events
St John's adopts the "New Program" under Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan, with help from Adler and Van Doren
St John's de-segregates
Eva Brann becomes tutor at St. John's
Jacob Klein
Adler appointed "Lecturer"
Mickeljohn appointed "Lecturer"
Wilfrid McClay at St John's?
Simon Kaplan at St Johns at some point here
Periods
Kass at St John's
Strauss at St John's
Bernadete at St John's
Adler at St John's
Al Geier undergrad at St John's
U Chicago
Events
Robert Hutchins begins the "New Plan" at U Chicago
Mortimer Adler, Scott Buchanan, and Richard McKeon meet at Cooper Union, NYC and begin conceiving innovative new educational program
McKeon arrives
Hutchens departs
Rorty
Adler & Hutchins launch Public "Great Books Program", basis of Britannica series
Periods
Leo Strauss
Benardete
Bloom
Adler
Dewey at Chicago
Al Geier
Deborah Modrak, taught JMNR
Mickeljohn's career
Periods
Alexander Meiklejohn founds Experimental College at U of Wisconsin
Alexander Mickeljohn at Brown
Alexander Mickeljohn President of Amherst
U Kansas, IHP
Periods
Pearson College, Integrated Humaniaties at U Kansas
John Senior at U Kansas, Classics
Torrey Honors
Events
John Mark Reynolds starts Torrey
Al Geier at Torrey?
