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Sunday, May 28, 2017
"major collegiate disorders"
A follow-up to yesterday's post...
Of course it's possible to reach too far into the past to get context for current events in the university, but this book certainly offers some interesting food for thought:
I love the fact that there was something called the Conic Section Rebellion.
Anyone who said that nothing like this could happen today would, I think, be correct; but I leave as a potentially illuminating exercise for my readers this question: Why couldn't it happen today?
Of course it's possible to reach too far into the past to get context for current events in the university, but this book certainly offers some interesting food for thought:
I love the fact that there was something called the Conic Section Rebellion.
Anyone who said that nothing like this could happen today would, I think, be correct; but I leave as a potentially illuminating exercise for my readers this question: Why couldn't it happen today?
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Commentary on technologies of reading, writing, research, and, generally, knowledge. As these technologies change and develop, what do we lose, what do we gain, what is (fundamentally or trivially) altered? And, not least, what's fun?
Alan Jacobs
Alan Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program of Baylor University and the author, most recently, of How to Think and The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography. His homepage is here.

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