Stringfellow Barr (January 15, 1897 in Suffolk, Virginia – February 3, 1982 in Alexandria, Virginia) was a historian, author, and former president of...
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academics and educators included Robert Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, Stringfellow Barr, Scott Buchanan, Jacques Barzun, and Alexander Meiklejohn. The view...
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straits caused by the Great Depression, invited educational innovators Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan to make a completely fresh start. They introduced...
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Jimmy Jack Funk Art Barr (1966–1994), younger son Samuel Russell Barr (1914–2001), American businessman and politician Stringfellow Barr (1897–1982), historian...
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were Robert Hutchins, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Mortimer J. Adler, Stringfellow Barr, Albert Léon Guérard, Harold Innis, Erich Kahler, Wilber G. Katz,...
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Wilson (1956) Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (1957) Purely Academic by Stringfellow Barr (1958) A New Life by Bernard Malamud (1961) Night and Silence Who...
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responded favorably, including John Chamberlain, Carl Van Doren, and Stringfellow Barr. Margaret Wallace wrote in The New York Times Book Review that Wolfe...
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Undergraduate Common Core. Other notable figures in the movement include Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan (who together initiated the Great Books program...
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endowment, later withdrawn under unclear circumstances. In 1937, Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan successfully established the Great Books curriculum...
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foundation consultant. He is best known as the founder, together with Stringfellow Barr, of the Great Books program at St. John's College, at Annapolis, Maryland...
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