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Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan __,; I Ry Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan I __,; rY . have m the past three years set up at Annapolis the only liberal arts •,..c~l~ e m the United States. This book describes what they have done; it ts a tribute to what t ey a ' ~ R. Barr and Mr. Buchanan came to St. John's Col~ e M summer of 1937 to put into effect their answer to ~~e major problems in liberal education today-the problem o o o many people can go to college for four years, become b chel f arts, and still be uneducated. Their answer is the now amous St. Johns Program, which consists principally in the Cu~d discussion of the works of about one hundred and sevente~ut~rs in the Western tradition. ~ From the beginning one of Mr. Barr's chief ·function si- dent of the college has been to explain the St. John's P to the general public. He has made innumerable speeches assorted Rotary clubs, chambers of commerce, groups of educl'toiT," l_d domestic clubs; has written magazine articles, has started a~d on a series of radio programs describing activities at t~e, and in general has played the role of public spokesm or t e college-a role to which his congenial and somewhat ular pefsonality is well fitted. Just as important has been h. o keep the college from falling off the financial brink it as been teetering on for the past several years. Yet even though fieT k\>t very busy performing as college politician and master ~y "'~"' M,. ''"<Oil fu.rl, <lm< '" "'"""" ·' ll•cl< seminar in the New Program and to teach History 26M st popular course in the Old Program. Perhaps his most g characteristic from the student point of view is the fa t e knows most of them well enough to address them by st names. ~ Mr. Buchanan as Dean of the college has necessaril ad to concern himself with the internal affairs of the college. · n task has been to arrange the actual working structure o=i­ culum, to determine the subject matter and schedule of cia es, o provide the order and locus in which the various parts o~ gram function-in short to guide and co~ordinate the wo actua 1y done on the great books. Besides his work on the curreue serves as a reference point for disciplinary matters, and, n con£ r~ ence with members of the administration, faculty, and stu y, determines the great policies on which St. John's operat~ from his administrative duties Mr. Buchanan acts as the~eader o"\ the Junior seminar. t:.__.. Even though separately they have different functions~~adin­ istrative men, both Mr. Barr and Mr. Buchanan are ss ta y teachers, are working for the same end, and as a team ar a · g St. John's a liberal arts college which, oddly enough, tef'!y a"Jd practices the liberal arts. ~ 6 :c ~ Editor's Note FROM OUR READERS With the Winter 1982 issue the St. John's Review began to charge new subscribers. Old subscribers, St. John's ON " 'SEXISM' IS MEANINGLESS" alumni and friends, students and their families will con· tinue to receive the magazine without charge. My desire To the Editor of the St. John's Review: to turn the St. John's Review into an unambiguously pub· After reading Mr. Doskow's letter answering Michael Levin lie magazine and to win an additional audience prompted ("'Sexism' is Meaningless" St. John's Review Autumn 1981), I de­ this decision. The St. John's Review will appear three times cided to abandon temporarily my subjugation as housewife and a year, in the fall, winter, and summer-L.R. respond to Mr. Doskow's myopic view of human nature. In his letter Mr. Doskow accuses Mr. Levin of various "prejudices" con­ cerning women. In so doing he examines the condition of women, past and present, under two false assumptions. The first false as­ Editor: sumption is that women have been forced by men to stay at home Leo Raditsa and rear children. The second is that women are still being forced by men to stay at home and rear children. Underlying both as­ Managing Editor: sumptions and embedded in the fabric of his letter (though no­ where stated explicitly) is the further assumption that the habit Thomas Parran, Jr. of centuries has no connection with and is a violation of the laws of nature. (It is, however, open to question whether or not Mr. Editorial Assistants: Doskow accepts the existence of permanent standards which David Carnes dictate certain modes of human behavior.) In answer to Mr. Janet Durholz Doskow' s first assumption, I must cite a book by George Gilder called Sexual Suicide in which Gilder claims that men never forced women to stay at home and rear children. In fact, women, be­ Consulting Editors: cause of the nature of female sexuality (which includes the pro­ David Bolotin, cesses of pregnancy and childbirth) have traditionally required Eva Brann, men to marry them and provide for the upkeep of the resulting children. Male sexuality, according to Gilder, is characterized by Curtis A. Wilson. indiscriminate and temporary liasons, and only the necessity of fathering a woman's children causes men to embrace monog­ amy. If Mr. Doskow would pause in his ruminations on the Unsolicited articles, stories, and poems are welcome, plight of women and read the first sentence of Pride and Prej­ but should be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed udice, he would see there a clear demonstration ofthe necessity, envelope in each instance. Reasoned comments are also imposed by women upon men, that men marry in order to estab­ welcome. lish themselves in civilized society. The second assumption is false because women are now encouraged to play more roles in society than we ever have in human history. The present educa­ THEST)OHNSREVIEW (formerly The College) is published by tion of women encourages masculine, not feminine qualities. the Office of the Dean, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland Mr. Doskow assumes that the "environmental differences 21404. Edwin J. Delattre, President, Samuel S. Kutler, Dean. boys and girls are subjected to" are responsible for different Published thrice yearly, in the fall, winter, and summer. For those forms of behavior in boys and girls and hence the "subjugation" not on the distribution list, subscriptions: $12.00 yearly, $24.00 for of the latter. (I would like to know what the term "environmental two years, or $36.00 for three years, payable in advance. Address differences" signifies-barometric pressure, or humidity???) I all correspondence to The St. John's Review, St. John's College, can't disagree with the claim that girls have usually been educated Annapolis, Maryland 21404. with their feminine characteristics in mind-receptivity, for ex­ ample-until now. Mr Deskew does not bother to address him­ self to the question of whether or not it is proper to prepare girls for Volume XXXIII SUMMERI982 Number 3 motherhood, and I tend to think that he considers motherhood ©1982, St. John's College. All rights reserved. Reproduction in such a casual affair that education regarding it is unnecessary. whole or in part without permission is prohibited. The modern liberal has placed himself in the uneasy position of ISSN 0277-4 720 asserting the primacy of early childhood development in the cor­ Cover: Page 6 of the nineteen forty St. John's College Yearbook. rect functioning of society, while maintaining all along that any­ one-mother, father, daycare worker, psychologist, teacher- ComPosition: Britton Composition Co. Printing: The John D. Lucas Printing Co. (continued on page 2) .HESTJOHNSREVIEWSUMMER1982 3 St. John's under Barr and Buchanan: the Fight with the Navy and the Departure of the Founders ]. Winfree Smith 20 Schiller's Drama-Fulfillment of History and Philosophy in Poetry Gisela Berns 31 Some Chinese Poems translated by julie Landau 39 That Graver Fire Bell: A Reconsideration of the Debate over Slavery from the Standpoint of Lincoln Robert]. Loewenberg 51 Sophocles' Ajax and the Ajax Myth Philip Holt 62 Toward Reading Thomas Aquinas Thomas]. Slakey REvmw EssAY 68 Updike and Roth: Are They Writers? John Updike's Rabbit Is Rich, and Philip Roth's Zuckerman Unbound review essay by Lev Navrozov can assist in said developlnent equipped throughout his letter without bothering to It is this unthinking participation in the with nothing more than a brief course of substantiate his claim. In this he seems to preservation of the moral health of society training. Motherhood involves much more fall prey to a vice common to those who as­ by means of the family (which is the first than a course in applied social sciences, sume that human nature is malleable or and most effective school) which Mr. however. For one thing, only a mother can nonexistent: he neglects the problem of Doskow calls "prejudice". We must con­ do it: that is, a woman who has given birth necessity. Although political society is an sider men and women not as interchange­ to or accepted as her own through adop­ institution, that is, it is made by men, it able parts in a machine, units possessing tion an utterly dependent human person. must do more than provide us with the op­ "rights", but as members of mankind, The commitment made is physical, emo­ portunity for happiness. It must be able to working in cooperation for the greatest tional, and instinctive. It is the most power­ withstand the vicissitudes of fortune; it good possible. Men are such that the great­ ful bond between two people in nature.
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