The Bell Tower and Beyond: Reflections on Learning and Living

by Shi, David Emory

• ISBN13: 9781570034664
• ISBN10: 1570034664
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr

Author Biography

David Emory Shi is president of Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Preface	xv
Part 1 The Academic World	1	(50)
A Precious Inheritance Inaugural Address	3	(6)
The River of Time Address to Alumni Volunteers	9	(4)
A Holy Place The Dedication of the Charles E. Daniel Chapel	13	(3)
A New Approach to Liberal Learning	16	(4)
Graduation Agony	20	(2)
Welcome, President Barker!	22	(2)
Wisdom with a Smile	24	(2)
Joab Lesesne
Bonner Legendary Administrator	26	(3)
Francis Wesley Bonner
Dean Extraordinaire	29	(3)
John Crabtree
Exemplary Teacher	32	(3)
William E. Leverette Jr.
Overcoming the Odds	35	(2)
Robert McNamara
A Study in Hope and Resilience	37	(2)
Greg Mason
The Timmons Family Legacy	39	(3)
Letting Go	42	(2)
War and Remembrance	44	(3)
On Becoming Paladins	47	(2)
An Ethic of Work and Learning	49	(2)
Warren Wilson College
Part 2 Writing and Reading	51	(24)
The Fate of Books in a Digital Age Phi Beta Kappa Address	53	(10)
Pleasures of the Essay	63	(2)
A Passion for Poetry	65	(3)
Looking Backward into the New Millennium A Book Review	68	(3)
A Love of Sacred Music A Book Review	71	(4)
Part 3 Contemporary Culture	75	(40)
What Happened to the Simple Life?	77	(9)
Reflections on the Verge of Autumn	86	(3)
Leadership Is for Lovers	89	(2)
Going to the Dogs	91	(2)
Is Anybody Happy?	93	(3)
America's Car Culture	96	(3)
The Classics Stage a Comeback	99	(3)
Deliver Us from Evil	102	(3)
The Decline of Fatherhood	105	(2)
The White-Collar Sweatshop	107	(3)
Senior Citizens in Cyberspace	110	(3)
Haunting Realism The Art of Andrew Wyeth	113	(2)
Part 4 Greenville and Greenvillians	115	(20)
Greenville's Namesake	117	(3)
Nathanael Greene
Fanfare for an Uncommon Man	120	(2)
Buck Mickel
Community Servant	122	(2)
Max Heller
Embracing the Homeless	124	(3)
Tackling the Illiteracy Problem	127	(2)
Distinguished Native Son	129	(3)
Charles Hard Townes
Behaviorist from Travelers Rest	132	(3)
John Broadus Watson
Part 5 The South	135	(20)
The South and Its Heritage	137	(3)
The Palmetto State Past and Present	140	(3)
Interpreter of the New South	143	(2)
C. Vann Woodward
Flawed Leader	145	(3)
Jefferson Davis
The Big Chill Cooling the South	148	(3)
The Weed That Ate Dixie	151	(4)
Kudzu
Part 6 America Past and Present	155	(60)
A Tangled Fabric	157	(2)
George Washington's Rules for Civility	159	(3)
Restoring Civility to Congress	162	(3)
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement	165	(3)
Pragmatic President	168	(3)
Abraham Lincoln
The First Impeachment	171	(5)
Forgotten Artist	176	(3)
Cecilia Beaux
Gurus of Cornflakes	179	(2)
The Scopes Trial Revisited	181	(3)
We Stole Her Fair and Square	184	(3)
Hawaii
The Greatest Generation	187	(3)
The Mighty Eighth	190	(3)
Model of Independence	193	(3)
Eleanor Roosevelt
The Glorious Fourth	196	(3)
A French Apostle of Liberty	199	(3)
Martyr or Madman?	202	(3)
John Brown
Invading Afghanistan	205	(3)
The Election of 1876	208	(3)
Christmas Musings	211	(4)
``Auld Lang Syne''	215