The University and the Public Interest - Hardcover

SCARCE SIGNED VERY GOOD stated FIRST EDITION dust jacket hardcover, clean text, free tracking number, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library, smoke free; slight gentle shelfwear / storage-wear; 1/2" edge tear to back, front of jacket; WE SHIP FAST. 201908815 SIGNED: "For Ken Porter - With thanks for the hospitality - Sincerely, Bart Giamatti" ''The University and the Public Interest'' consists of 13 occasional essays, all but one written since he became Yale's 19th president in 1977. The range of subjects is wide, and his standards of social responsibility are high. One wonders what the Yale Athletic Association, let alone the football coaches of America, thought about a defense of athletics that draws upon John Henry Cardinal Newman to argue that only when ''an athletic contest (is) enjoyable in itself, with no expectation of a consequence beyond the playing of it,'' is it part of ''liberal'' education. One wonders what the freshman class thought, in the fall of 1980, listening to their president explore the ''fictional'' nature of time, whether a decade or a millennium, in order to urge the young to spurn the apocalyptic style, which derives from Saint John and the Book of Revelations, and to embrace the tolerant and skeptical goals of liberal education. Whatever his particular subject - science in the curriculum, the purpose of secondary schools, the reporting requirements of Federal agencies - Mr. Giamatti has a single general subject: ''the nature of our institutions for education and the purposes for which those institutions are intended.'' Development of that subject depends upon the definition of its two key terms, institution and purpose. Carefully packed and quickly sent. Please choose Priority / Expedited shipping for faster delivery. (No shipping to Mexico, Brazil, Argentina or Italy.)