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University Daily Kansan Friday, April 20, 1962
Milton's Ideas on Education Next Humanities Subject
If John Milton were a college dean or president today, would his 300-year-old ideas on education seem archaic or surprisingly modern. Would space era students agree with him that "far too much time is wasted in education?" Would 1962 university faculty members agree with his attitude toward foreign languages and mathematics?
Such questions relate to the next Humanities Series lecture at the University of Kansas to be given Tuesday, April 24, by William R Parker, renowned Milton scholar and distinguished service professor of English at Indiana University. He will speak on "Milton's Ideas on Education — and Ours" at 8 p.m. in Fraser Theater. An informal reception by the Faculty Club will follow.
Prof. Parker will explain why the 17th century English poet was unorthodox in his views on education. He points out that Milton studied at Cambridge for seven years . . . "and hated the whole experience." Had he had the power, Milton would have abolished both Oxford and Cambridge.
The Indiana scholar, who has published four books and dozens of learned articles about Milton, will spend three days on the KU campus, speaking to classes in English and sociology, meeting with the administrative committee of the College, and speaking to special meetings of faculty members and graduate students in English and in foreign languages.
At 4 p.m. on Monday, April 23, he will speak on "Government and Public Education" at a coffee arranged by Student Union Activities. The open lecture will be in the Cottonwood and Meadowlark Rooms of the
Kansas Union instead of the Forum Room — as previously announced.
He is the first Milton scholar to give a Humanities lecture since the series was started 15 years ago. He is a senator of Phi Beta Kappa, and he has been a leader in the Modern Language Association and editor of its publication, PMLA. He was MLA executive secretary, 1947-56, president in 1959, and director of MLA foreign language program, 1952-56. He was secretary of the board of directors of the American Council of Learned Societies, 1950-56, a member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, 1953-58, and chief of the language development section of the U.S. Office of Education, 1958-59.
He was born in 1906 in Roanoke, Va., received the B.A. at Roanoke College, the M.A. at Princeton, and the B. Litt. at Oxford. He was awarded honorary doctorates at Middlebury College and University of Michigan, and will receive an honorary L.H.D. at Roanoke College in June. Before he joined the Indiana faculty in 1956, he had taught at Northwestern, Ohio State, and New York University.
He has been visiting professor at Johns Hopkins, Duke, and Southern California, has done research in Europe, and has given graduate school anniversary lectures at Indiana and Ohio State.
Besides producing more than 150 articles, essays, poems, and criticisms, he has published these books: "Milton's Debt to Greek Tragedy in 'Samson Agonistes,'" "Milton's Contemporary Reputation," "The National Interest and Foreign Languages," and "The MLA Style Sheet." About to be published are his "Milton: A Biography" (2 vols.), "Annals of Milton and His Age," and "Variorum Notes and Commentary on Milton's 'Samson Agonistes.'"
Male Rats Run True to Form
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — (UPI) Researchers at the University of Michigan have found in their studies of alcoholism that male rats drink more than female rats.
Library Books Up By 45,000 Yearly
Watson Library adds 45,000 to 50,000 volumes of books to its shelves every year.
According to L. E. James Helyar, head of the acquisitions department, these books are purchased from an allotted fund of $232.000.
The material is selected according to scholarly value by faculty members working through the library faculty committee. The acquisitions department makes additional purchases of books not related to any specific division.
The library is attempting to build up the area studies divisions. Materials on the Far East, Latin America and especially books on Costa Rica, are being increased.
Current publications on the language and literature of France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden are being obtained constantly.
In many of the countries, a professional bookseller purchases these books locally and transfers them to the KU library.
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