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ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY Ill IIll Ill II Ill lf~11fl~fl\lf111111f1'1111il 1111111111111111 The St. John's ~-1_~~~ 0113_8_2_0_8~~-~ _c VOLUME 21, ISSUE 1 ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND AND SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO FALL 1994 1 9 6 4 1 9 9 4 Santa Fe Celebrates its ANNIVERSARY Richard D. Weigle and Richard F. Cle:veland lay the cornerstone Workers lay the sidewalk on the Santa Fe campus, 1964. for the college, 1963. French reading knowledge exam abolished Competency to be stressed in junior language tutorials rr.,he faculty at both campuses at faculty meetings on both campus agreed this fall: no more es, the faculty endorsed the proposal. French reading knowledge Some of the arguments to abol exam. Passing the test, which ish the exam were: 1) Tutors can involved translating a passage from monitor the progress of their stu French into English, had been a con dents' learning. The junior language dition for entering the senior year. tutorial is the place to make sure that The reading knowledge exam was students learn to read French well administered four times during the enough to translate the kinds of pas junior year; students could bring dic sages that are discussed senior year. 2) tionaries and other reference books Some students who do well in lan with them to help them translate the guage class are yet unable to pass the Freshmen await departure for orientation in Santa Fe. given passage within a two-hour time exam. Students who can translate in limit. For most students, the junior class and contribute to the discussion Welcome Freshmen! year includes several weeks of inten should be allowed to continue into sive French grammar, a program si::nior year. 3) The examination tests Incoming freshmen find friendly the Orientation Committee members designed to teach the basics to those a skill not much emphasized in class, advisors to help them adjust to a took groups of freshmen on tours of who have not studied French before time-limited, unassisted sight trans new life campus, led workshops, supplied and as a refresher for those who had it lation. 4) The dean usually finds con donuts, and just generally tried to in high school. The more subtle tingency arrangements necessary for make the newest Johnnies feel at "In the beginning were the translation work on poetry and essays those students who do not pass the home sooner. Every freshman was Advisors ... " says the Gospel according that takes place during senior lan exam before senior year. For example, assigned an advisor who could offer to St. John's, and that's what the guage tutorials depends on students extensive tutoring or classes at other pointers on fathoming some of the newly organized Freshman being able to read French, and the colleges over the summer have been intricacies of the St. John's way of Orientation Committee in Annapolis purpose of the French reading knowl recommended before the student tries doing things.One of the first tasks is all about. The group aims to edge exam was to assure that students the exam again. ·Miss Brann, freshman year is learning the Greek smooth the introduction to St. John's attained a certain level of competency Annapolis dean, referred to the alphabet. With this more energetic for incoming freshmen, who have a before senior year. "adjustment and deception" involved integration effort, the freshmen will host of things to deal with living on At the Joint Instruction in figuring out what to do about stu be able to jump right into the pro their own, figuring out their sched Committee meeting last spring, the dents who do not pass. The threat gram, the sooner to be able to trans ules, finding the right type of cereal that they might not be allowed to late the Gospel according to St. .. Proposal to abolish the exam was in the dining hall, reading the most continue at the college is essentially John's: introduced. After spirited discussions difficult but intriguing books. ) ) ')' c continued on page 3 Led by Rebecca Dzamov, A95, Ev apxfl T\ crav 01 Malinda Campbell, A97, and John l:uµ~ouA,01, Ka\ ot Luµ~ouA,m J IN ANNAPOLIS Clasby, A96, and sporting teeshirts ~O"aV n:poc; 'tOUc; µa0yttac;, Kat September 23 - November 19 emblazoned with the Gospel on the l "Rembrandt Etchings: Selection of the ot ..Euµ~ouA,m ~crav µa01ltal. I front and the college seal on the back, l Carnegie Museum of Art," SANTA FE EDITION • The Mitchell Gallery is fortunate to INSIDE ·have a group of 51 etchings by News/Announcements 2 Goings On-Santa Fe 7 Rembrandt on display from Letters to the Editor 4 Alumni Association 14 September 2 3 to November 19. The The Campaign For Alumni Notes 18 exhibit 1 title 1s "Rembrandt Our Fourth Century 5 Obituaries 23 Etchings: Seiections of the Carnegie Goings On-Annapolis 6 Art Gallery 24 Museum of Art." more on page 2 4 Page 2 THE REPORTER Fall 1994 Seven tutors appointed: Project puts vvoinen on the Annapolis shelves ive new tutor~, ~hristopher Cosans, University and a lecturer at the Wayne Ed1s1s, Emily Hope University of Auckland in New Zealand. During her senior year, Heather Malcolm, FBrooker Langston, Carl Page, and Mr. Page graduated in 1980 from the SF94, started the Books by Women Edward C. Smith, have been named to University of Auckland with an under the faculty at the Annapolis campus. graduate degree in philosophy and mathe Project on the Santa Fe campus. The pro Christopher Cosans brings to St. matics. He earned both his master's and ject's aim is to acquire books by women for John's ten years' experience in teaching doctoral degrees in philosophy a few the St. john's College Meem Library col lection. To date the project has amassed science at the University of Chicago. A years later from Auckland and more than 100 books. 1986 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania State University, respec Chicago with a bachelor's degree in his tively. He reads Ancient Greek, French, tory, philosophy, and social studies of sci and German and has published articles How did the Books by Women Project get started? Heather Malcolm ence, he earned his master of science and lectured on such topics as the philos degree in anatomy in 1988, and in 1993 ophy of mathematics, the rationality of I think it really happened because .Which books haw you personally donated? his doctorate on the conceptual founda Cartesian doubt, and philosophical · I got to the end of my senior year tions of science, both from Chicago. At hermeneutics. and realized I had been bothered for ·I've only donated a couple so far Chicago, h~ taught courses in anatomy, Emily Hope Brooker Langston has a four years about the issue of women because I wanted to wait and see · philosophy of science, and evolutionary background in the history of what was not there. I did donate Joyce theory. He has also taught logic and the Christianity, Jewish studies, and feminist in the program but had never done anything about it. I realized part of Carol Oates and I will donate a hard technology of human values at Roosevelt thought. She created and taught the the reason I hadn't done anything is cover copy of The Second Sex. University. His research interests include courses "The Holocaust" at Emory that there's so much controversy over the philosophy of biology from the University and "Religion and Literature: what can be done to remedy the 'Do you think there is a place for women Presocratics to Galen, the philosophical Literature of Suffering" at Eckerd College problem, so I wanted to do something authors in the program? justification of holistic biology from in Florida. Ms. Langston earned her that was voluntary in terms of partic Kant to the present, and biomedical undergraduate degree from Emory ipation but that everybody would think it's a myth that there aren't ethics. He reads both German and Greek. University in 1987, her master's degree in ll? have access to. I figured if I couldn't ·really women who have been influ Mr. Cosans recently participated in a one theology and church history from the put a hundred books by women in the ential in our society, but I think they year course on the Foundations of University of Chicago in 1988, and is program I could at least put them in get lost and people forget about them. Bioethics at the University of Chicago's pursuing her doctorate in religion from the library. One of the reasons I did the project is Emory University. In 199 2-199 3 she Center for Clinical Ethics. He is also a that it might help lay the groundwork VITAS Hospice volunteer. attended the Oxford Center for for future consideration of books by Postgraduate Hebrew Studies at St. Cross How did you solicit books? Wayne Edisis, who will be a visit women. This year I gave my seminar a ing tutor for 1994-95, is a senior eco College at Oxford University. Basically, I wrote letters to people speech by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It nomic policy adviser for the International Edward C. Smith has been appoint I knew and my sister, Allison, was the start of the women's suffrage Bank for Reconstruction and ed a part-time tutor. He is a tenured pro designed the book plates. I talked to movement. I did it when we did the Development. From 1985-1987, he was fessor at The American University, where Inga Waite and she set up a little civil rights readings.