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Anthropologie… Anthropology…

Archivist, University of Polyleritae — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:36:53 +0000

…the Portishead of academia…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEQNAZGoZrw

The Modern University Experience

Archivist, University of Polyleritae — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:57:04 +0000

“The Professors of cognate subjects require also (at Oxford) to be grouped together into Boards, which should have the regulation of their respective studies, along with the Examiners of their school, and subject perhaps to some sort of veto at the hands of the Vice-Chancellor or the University. This would go some ways toward raising the position of the Professors and encouraging the formation of the ‘learned class,’ which the English are told they do not possess. To possess it in the German-University sense is, of course, on the principles already laid down, impossible. Professors are, in England, part of the teaching body. It it best they should remain so. A portion of them will, no doubt, advance the cause of learning by publishing lectures and writing books, over and above their regular work; but the modern University experience of ‘learned leisure’ is not encouraging.”

– John Taylor Coleridge, The Quarterly Review, (London: John Murray, 1809), 413.

Hans Selye Gets Advice…

Archivist, University of Polyleritae — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:06:04 +0000

“When he saw me thus launched on yet another enraptured description of what I had observed, he looked at me with desperately sad eyes and said in obvious despair: ‘But Selye try to realize what you are doing before it is too late! You have now decided to spend your entire life studying the pharmacology of dirt.’ ”
– (Hans Selye, The Stress of Life, 1956)