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From our pages
1955
Televised education might strike many couch potatoes as oxymoronic,
but Herman Finer, a University professor of political science, apparently
thought differently. According to the January issue, Finer taught a class,
worth a half-credit, through a 12-program series of Sunday morning WNBQ
telecasts. Governments and Human Nature focused on modern-day states and
how their policies might affect the U.S. Potential enrollees could register
in the University’s home study department, paying $22.50, while those
who wished to audit the class, as it were, could do so for $2 through the
same department.
1980 In a survey of the 900 surviving Class
of 1930 alumni, the Magazine asked whether they would choose to attend the
U of C if they could go back and do it all over again. The overwhelming
majority of the 156 respondents said they would, reported the September
issue. Answering another question, what they had enjoyed most at the University,
alumnus Arnold Harly mentioned “the cinnamon toast at the C-Shop.”
“Alas, Arnold,” the Magazine lamented, “the cinnamon toast
is a victim of the fast-food phenomenon.”
1995 An indignant classicist wrote into the Magazine’s October issue about “an unspeakable and inexcusable grammatical abomination.” He was referring to the Reunion banner, pictured in the August/95 “Chicago Journal,” which read “Emeritus Alumni” instead of “Emeriti Alumni.” “Photographically advertised to the whole of academe. For shame! For shame!” J. Periam Danton, PhD’35, scolded. The editor replied, “With a sigh of ‘Errare humanum est,’ the Alumni Association promises that next year’s banner... will receive a thorough copyedit.”