Stringfellow Barr - Citizendia

Stringfellow Barr (b. January 15, 1897, Suffolk, Virginia - February 3, 1982, Alexandria, Virginia) was a historian, author, and former president of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he, together with Scott Buchanan, instituted the Great Books curriculum. Events 588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah 's reign Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Suffolk is an Independent city located in the South Hampton Roads area of eastern Virginia. The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state Events 1112 - Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry uniting the fortunes of those two states Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Alexandria is an Independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state See also History An historian is an individual who studies and writes about History, and is regarded as an Authority on it An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created St John's College is a Liberal arts college with two US campuses Annapolis Maryland and Santa Fe New Mexico. Annapolis is the capital of the US state of Maryland, as well as the County seat of Anne Arundel County. Scott Milross Buchanan ( March 17, 1895 - March 25, 1968) was an American educator philosopher and foundation consultant Great Books refers to a curriculum and a book list Mortimer Adler lists three criteria for including a book on the list the book has contemporary significance

He established and was president of the Foundation for World Government from 1948 to 1958. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In the 1950s he taught classics at Rutgers College in Newark, New Jersey. Rutgers The State University of New Jersey (also known as Rutgers University) is the largest institution for higher education in the state of New Jersey Newark is the largest city in New Jersey, United States and the County seat of Essex County. New Jersey ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. Two of his books, The Will of Zeus and The Mask of Jove deal with the Greeks and Romans, respectively. His nickname was "Winkie" ^[1].

In a 1951 New York Post column, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. mocked Barr as belonging to the "solve-the-Russian-problem-by-giving-them-money school," and said, of him and two others, "None of these gentlemen is a Communist, but none of them objects very much to Communism. Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January The New York Post is the 13th-oldest Newspaper published in the United States and generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continually Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr, born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger ( October 15 1917 &ndash February 28 2007) was a Pulitzer Prize recipient They are the Typhoid Marys of the left, bearing the germs of the infection even if not suffering obviously from the disease. "^[2]

In 1958, Barr said (ironically):

Many observers here and abroad note a kind of higher illiteracy in our college graduates. But we like it that way. In our cars we like horsepower; in our studies we like slow-motion and low-gear. In education the intellectually second-rate does not shock us. To insist on the first-rate would be arrogant. Anyhow, if we are so second-rate, how come we are the richest nation in recorded history and the fattest people on earth?

In 1959, Barr was one of a number of signatories to a petition asking the U. The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. S. Congress to abolish the House Committee on Unamerican Activities. The House Committee on Un-American Activities ( HUAC or HCUA 1938–1975 was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. Other notable signatories included Eleanor Roosevelt and Reinhold Niebuhr. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (ˈɛlɪnɔr ˈroʊzəvɛlt October 11 1884 &ndash November 7 1962 Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr ( June 21, 1892 &ndash June 1, 1971) was an American theologian.

Barr was a multidimensional person who wrote The Kitchen Garden Book (New York: Viking Press, 1956) with Stella Standard. The Kitchen Garden is a manual on growing and cooking common vegetables.

New York Times reviewer Edmund Fuller called his 1958 novel, Purely Academic, "bitterly hilarious," "sadistically satirical," and "funny and appalling. " ^[3]

Notes

^ "Colonist", Time Magazine, August 19, 1946. Events 43 BC - Octavian, later known as Augustus compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
^ Navasky, Victor, 1980; Naming Names; p. 54 of the 2003 reprint by Hill and Wang; ISBN 0-8090-0183-7

References

Barr, Stringfellow. American National Biography. 2:222-224 (1999)
^ Edward Fuller, "In the Groves of Academe Without a Compass," The New York Times January 5, 1958, p. Events 1477 - Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. BR4