The Strength of the University : : A Selection from the Addresses of Claude T. Bissell / / Claude Bissell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Bissell, Claude,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1968
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

The addresses in this book have been selected from among those given by Dr. Bissell, on many occasions, to many different groups ofp eople, over the last twelve years. In them he expresses some of his attitudes to the roleo f the university today, its strengths, and its weaknesses. He discusses such matters as the myth of the ivory forever, the effect on the univeristy of the new radicalism and awareness of power on the part of the student; the necessity of maintaining a balance between the demands of undergraduate and graduate studies, between the speecd for professional training, and the study of the humanities, the concept of "double innocence' which has been operative in the administrative framework of Canadian universities and the necessity of change in this framework; what the role of the university should be as patron of and training ground for the arts. Dr. Bissell has firm convictions and high ideals and does not hesitate to make them known to the reader. As a profession of faith from the president of Canada's largest university this is fascinating reading for everyone who is aware of the importance of the university in the world today.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- The Strength of the University -- PART I: THE STUDENTS -- Angular, not Spherical -- The Right to be Angular -- Our Youthful Society -- The New Radicalism -- The Multiversity: Berkeley and Toronto -- PART II: THE PLACE AND THE WORK -- The College and the Ivory Tower -- Professionalism and the Humanities -- The University and the Arts -- University Libraries in the new Intellectual Environment -- The Reform of University Government -- Characteristics of a Great University -- PART III: THE ROLE AND THE PURPOSE -- Business and the University -- The University and Canadian-American Relations -- The University and Moral Values -- Academic Freedom: Individual and Institutional -- The Independence of Universities -- Education and Power -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS