THE GREAT IDEAS: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO AND THE IDEAL OF LIBERAL EDUCATION 05/2002 09/2002 CASE 1 John Erskine, General Honors at Columbia, New Republic (October 25, 1922): 1 Reproduction from Library Microfilm Collection John Erskine. The Delight of Great Books. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928. Signed presentation copy. Rare Book Collection John Erskine, Report of Progress to July 1, 1918, in Educational Plans for the American Army Abroad by Anson Phelps Stokes. New York: Association Press, 1918. Columbia College, Columbia University, General Honors Examination, January 1927. The Harvard Classics. 50 vols. Edited by Charles W. Eliot. New York: P.F. Collier and Sons, 1909. CASE 2 [Mortimer J. Adler], Columbia University Honors Reading Assignments 1927-28 [1927]. Robert M. Hutchins Papers John Erskine, Culture: An Interplay of Life and Ideas, Century Magazine 116 (May 1928): 83-88. Mortimer J. Adler s Columbia University grade report for Winter Session 192 Columbia University General Honors instructional staff to Dean Hawkes, Columbia College, unsigned typescript letter, May 25, 192
Columbia University Philosophy Department invitation to Honors Students performance of The Chronomides, February 27, 192 CASE 3 Mortimer J. Adler, Candidates for General Honors Reading, [1927]. Robert M. Hutchins Papers Mortimer J. Adler, Honors Credo, [1927]. Robert M. Hutchins Papers Robert M. Hutchins to Mortimer J. Adler, manuscript letter, August 9, [1931]. Freshman Week Program: The Colleges of Arts, Literature, and Science, University of Chicago Announcements 31 (August 1, 1930). Mortimer J. Adler to Robert M. Hutchins, carbon copy of typescript letter, [1929]. CASE 4 Mortimer J. Adler and Robert M. Hutchins, Final Examination for General Honors 110, June 193 The University of Chicago, Life (July 16, 1945): 71-77. Mortimer J. Adler, What Alice B. Toklas Has Forgotten about Gertrude Stein s Visit to the University of Chicago, typescript, March 25, 196
Alice B. Toklas. What is Remembered. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 196 Ludwig Rosenberger Library of Judaica Robert M. Hutchins, Autobiography of a Student Who Did Not Go to St. John s, speech given at St. John s College, June 8, 194 Robert M. Hutchins Papers CASE 5 College Curriculum Committee, University of Chicago, The Educational Objectives of the College in the University of Chicago, typescript report, April 21, 193 Robert M. Hutchins. The Higher Learning in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 193 Faculty Publications Collection Mortimer J. Adler to Stringfellow Barr, carbon copy of typescript letter, January 16, [1936]. Mortimer J. Adler to Scott Buchanan, carbon copy of typescript letter, [January 1936]. Mortimer J. Adler to Scott Buchanan, carbon copy of typescript letter, [May 1936]. Mortimer J. Adler to Richard P. McKeon, typescript letter, n.d. Richard P. McKeon Papers CASE 6 Mortimer J. Adler. How to Read a Book: The Art of Getting a Liberal Education. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. How to Read a Book advertisement, New York Times Book Review (April 21, 1940): 1
How to Read a Book advertisement, New York Herald Tribune Books (April 7, 1940): 9. Erasmus G. Addlepate (pseudonym). How to Read Two Books. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1940. James T. Farrell, Mortimer J. Adler: A Provincial Torquemada, Partisan Review 7 (November/December 1940): 453-45 How to Read a Classic, Publishers Weekly 137 (March 16, 1940): 1147-48. CASE 7 [College Curriculum Committee], University of Chicago, Analysis of the Four Reading Lists, [1936]. Richard P. McKeon Papers The University of Chicago Senate, minutes, January 22, 194 University of Chicago Senate, Minutes, 1892-1967 [Clarence Faust], The Chicago Plan, typescript draft of report, [1944]. Presidents Papers, 1940-1946 The University of Chicago Cap and Gown. Chicago: Herbert F. Larson, 1938. Archival Serials CASE 8 The College and the Divisions: Sessions of 1944-1945, University of Chicago Announcements 64 (May 14, 1944). Archival Serials The University of Chicago. Social Sciences 3: Syllabus. 12th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Bookstore, 194 Syllabi Collection
The University of Chicago. Natural Sciences 1: Selected Readings. 2d ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Bookstore, 194 Syllabi Collection The University of Chicago. First Year Course in the Study of Humanities (Humanities 1): Syllabus for the First Year of a Three-Year Course in the College. Chicago: University of Chicago Bookstore, 194 Robert M. Hutchins, The University at War, University of Chicago Magazine 34 (January 1942): 3-2 Archival Serials CASE 9 William H. McNeill, Integration, in The Idea and Practice of General Education: An Account of the College of the University of Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950. Faculty Publications Collection Richard P. McKeon, course calendar and syllabus for Observation, Integration, and Interpretation, Autumn Quarter 194 Richard P. McKeon Papers William H. McNeill. History Handbook. Part Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949. University of Chicago Board of Examinations. O.I.I. Quarterly (December 1944). Two copies. CASE 10 St. John s College, The New Program at St. John s College in Annapolis, The Bulletin (supplement, July 1937).
Sidney Hook, Ballyhoo at St. John s College: Education in Retreat, New Leader (May 27, 1944): 8-9. Scott Buchanan to Robert M. Hutchins, Western Union telegram, [October 1937]. Robert M. Hutchins Papers Scott Buchanan to Robert M. Hutchins, typescript letter, June 24, 1937. Robert M. Hutchins Papers Stringfellow Barr, John Doe Goes to St John s, Progressive Education 16 (January 1939): 18-2 CASE 11 Robert M. Hutchins to Walter Paepcke, carbon copy of typescript letter, September 20, 194 Presidents Papers, 1940-1946 Walter Paepcke to Robert M. Hutchins, typescript letter, October 15, 194 Presidents Papers, 1940-1946 List of participants in Mortimer J. Adler s and Robert M. Hutchins University Club Fat Man s Great Books Course, [1943]. Presidents Papers, 1940-1946 Milton Meyer to Wilber Munnecke, typescript memorandum, September 7, 194 Presidents Papers, 1940-1946 Robert M. Hutchins copy of the reading list (with discussion leaders) for Fat Man s Great Books Course, [1943]. Presidents Papers, 1940-1946 CASE 12 Great Books of the Western World. 54 vols. Founders Edition. Edited by Mortimer J. Adler. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 195
Gift of Elizabeth Abler, Rare Book Collection General criteria for selection of titles for inclusion in Great Books of the Western World, n.d. Presidents Papers, 1925-1945 Joseph Schwab to Robert M. Hutchins, typescript letter, November 4, [1943]. Presidents Papers, 1925-1945 Robert M. Hutchins to John Erskine, carbon copy of typescript letter, October 13, 194 Presidents Papers, 1925-1945 CASE 13 The Syntopicon. Vol. 2 of Great Books of the Western World. Founders Edition. Edited by Mortimer J. Adler. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 195 Gift of Elizabeth Abler, Rare Book Collection The Syntopicon. Vol. 3 of Great Books of the Western World. Edited by Mortimer J. Adler. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 195 The 102 Great Ideas, Life (January 26, 1948): 92-10 Mortimer J. Adler and Clare Boothe Luce, The Great Ideas, University of Chicago Round Table (June 11, 1950). Presidents Papers, 1925-1945 Mortimer J. Adler to Wallace Brockway, carbon copy of memorandum, December 1, 194 CASE 14 Program and menu from the presentation dinner for the Founders Edition of the Great Books of the Western World, April 15, 195 Gift of Elizabeth Abler,
Presentation booklet containing transcriptions of the speeches given at the presentation dinner for the Founders Edition of the Great Books of the Western World, April 15, 195 Gift of Elizabeth Abler, Signed photograph of William Benton, Robert M. Hutchins, and Mortimer J. Adler, April 15, 195 William Benton Papers Photograph of Mortimer J. Adler, Jacques Maritain, and Clifton Fadiman, April 15, 195 William Benton Papers Signed photograph of Robert M. Hutchins, William Benton, and University of Chicago Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton, April 15, 195 William Benton Papers CASE 15 Signed photograph of Mortimer J. Adler, William Benton, and Robert M. Hutchins with the first set of the Great Books of the Western World, [1952]. William Benton Papers Dwight Macdonald, The Book-of-the-Millennium Club, New Yorker 28 (November 29, 1952): 171-188. Mockup for advertising flier for the Great Books of the Western World, n.d. Advertising flier for the Great Books of the Western World, n.d. Harry E. Houghton to William Benton, Robert Hutchins carbon copy of typescript letter, December 20, 1949. Presidents Papers, 1925-1945
CASE 16 Promotional materials for the Great Books of the Western World, [1960s]. William Benton, speech to Encyclopaedia Britannica Great Books division managers conference, typescript notes, February 11, 196 William Benton Papers CASE 17 Photograph of Goethe Bicentennial Convocation and Music Festival Grounds, June/July 1949. Elizabeth Paepcke Papers Announcement for Goethe Bicentennial Convocation and Music Festival, 1949. Eero Saarinen to Walter Paepcke, manuscript letter, July 4, 1949. Goethe Bicentennial Makes Aspen World Cultural Capital, Pueblo, Colorado Star- Journal, May 29, 1949. Program from the Goethe Bicentennial Convocation and Music Festival, June/July 1949. Thar s Gold in Them Thar Bones, Chicago Tribune, July 2, 1949. CASE 18 Culture Takes Root at Aspen, Colo., as Institute for Humanistic Studies, Kansas City Times, June 19, 1950. Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, final revised program, August 21-27, 1950.
Walter Paepcke to Allen Cochrane, carbon copy of typescript letter, February 4, 1950. Cyril O. Houle to Robert Hutchins, carbon copy of typescript memorandum, December 23, 1949. Walter Paepcke to Mr. and Mrs. William M. Dorrance, carbon copy of typescript letter, November 14, 1949. Mr. and Mrs. William M. Dorrance to Walter Paepcke, Western Union telegram, November 4, 1949. CASE 19 Photographs of Mortimer J. Adler, n.d. Elizabeth H. Paepcke Papers These images of Adler teaching an Executive Seminar at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies are from Elizabeth H. Paepcke s photograph album. Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Summer Program 1950. Photograph of Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies Executive Seminar performance of Antigone (Mortimer J. Adler, center right), n.d. Elizabeth H. Paepcke Papers Mortimer Adler. Philosopher at Large: An Intellectual Autobiography, typescript draft, n.d. Walter Paepcke, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies Summer Program 1951, typescript report, n.d.
CASE 21 Mortimer J. Adler to Walter and Elizabeth Paepcke, typescript letter, March 18, 1958. Great Books Foundation, 101 Great Books in the Modern World, n.d. Photograph of Elizabeth Paepcke (third from the right) on television set of It s a Great Idea, 1949. Elizabeth H. Paepcke Papers Walter Paepcke to Elizabeth Paepcke, typescript letter, February 21, 1947. Elizabeth H. Paepcke Papers Great Books Foundation readings. Chicago: Great Books Foundation, n.d. [Mortimer J. Adler], Date for Construction of Proliferation Chart, typescript report, April 19, 1958. CASE 22 Allan Bloom. The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today s Students. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. Faculty Publications Collection Mortimer J. Adler to Allan Bloom, photocopy of typescript letter, April 8, 1987. Martha Nussbaum, Undemocratic Vistas, The New York Review of Books (November 5, 1987): 20-2 James Atlas, Chicago s Grumpy Guru, New York Times Magazine (January 3, 1988): 1
Reproduction from Library Microfilm Collection Paul Lerner and Jordan Orlando, An Interview with Allan Bloom, Chicago Literary Review (September 23, 1987): 11-1 Archival Serials Paul Lerner, The Closed Mind, Chicago Literary Review (September 23, 1987): 7-8. Archival Serials 7. Lisa Maroski, After Bloom, Then What? Chicago Literary Review (September 23, 1987): 7. Archival Serials CASE 23 Great Books of the Western World. 61 vols. 2d ed. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1990. Gift of Wendy Doniger, Mortimer J. Adler, The Great Books Then and Now: 1952 and 1990, typescript draft of speech given at the Library of Congress, October 25, 1990. Mike Capetanakis to Pat Wier, photocopy of memorandum, June 22, 1989. Eric Altman, Not So Great, The Nation 251 (November 19. 1990): 58 CASE 24 Mortimer J. Adler. Manual for Discussion Leaders: Preliminary Draft for Use in Great Books Community Groups. Chicago: University of Chicago Bookstore, 194 Faculty Publications Collection John Beard to University College Great Books instructors, mimeographed typescript memorandum, September 24, 194 Presidents Papers, 1945-1950
University College, University of Chicago, The Great Books in the Modern World, 194 Presidents Papers, 1945-1950 University of Chicago Graham School. Basic Program Quarterly Calendar, Fall 200 Archival Serials File University of Chicago Graham School. Basic Program Quarterly Calendar, Summer 200 Archival Serials File