Goheen, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1919-2008.

The human nature of a university / by Robert F. Goheen.

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1969.

116 pages ; 21 cm

"The Human Nature of a University distills the best from the public papers of Robert F. Goheen during his twelve years as President of Princeton University. The papers were originally addressed to a board audience within the university, to students and their parents, to faculty members and trustees; outside the university to businessmen and others- and he book, too, speaks of American higher education to many disparate groups, seeking to make the university better understood and more warmly appreciated. A classics professor as well as a university administrator, Dr. Goheen finds relevance to today's university in the philosophy of Heraclitus, who was intrigued with the forward movement made possible by tensions, and with the harmony born of contrasts. Heraclitus' favorite images were the bow and the lyre, and in The Human Nature of a University the image of the bow, with its harmonious tensions driving the arrow forward, is the organizing theme. Dr. Goheen likens the university to a human being, whose tensions are natural but need to be recognized and brought into balance lest they cause loss of direction and ineffectuality. He talks of the university in terms of four tensions, suggesting not that these are the only ones present but that this is a useful way of looking at the university today: Detachment and Involvement, Conservation and Innovation, Teaching and Research, Mind and Spirit. This is not a "How to" book on the handling of student protesters or on the raising of funds; it is a "Why to" book, one whose insights into the meaning of liberal education may inspire many within and without the university to strive harder to help universities to realize their true goals for individuals and for society. Robert F. Goheen was born in India in 1919. He received his A.B> from Princeton in 1940, Phi Beta Kappa with Highest Honors. He enlisted in the army in 1941 and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, receiving the Bronze Star, the Combat Infantryman's Badge, the Legion of Merit, and four battle stars. Returning to Princeton, he completed his Ph.D. in Classics in 1948. In 1951 his book, The Imagery of Sophocles' Antigone, was published. He taught at Princeton, and in 1953 was named Director of the national Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation. His appointment to the presidency of Princeton in 1957 made him one of the youngest university presidents in the United States. As President of Princeton, he has led the university through the period of its largest expansion while preserving the teacher-scholar tradition that has long characterized Princeton." Publisher.

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Education, Higher United States.
Education, Higher
Hochschule
Enseignement supérieur États-Unis.
Universités États-Unis.
United States

Hochschulschrift.

Location: Library main 178933
Call No.: ID LA227.3.G6; ID:98-B1419
Status: Available