From University Diaries yesterday—
"A writer for The Atlantic applauds Santorum's attack on universities
as secular, amoral indoctrination machines.
What can UD say to this?…."
Below is a screenshot of the new home page for
Columbia University Department of Mathematics.
The impressive building in the photo is not the math department.
The building is actually Columbia's Butler Library.
"Along the front and sides of the library are inscribed the names of
Homer, Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Desmosthenes,
Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Tacitus, Saint Augustine, Aquinas, Dante,
Cervantes, Shakespeare, Milton, Voltaire, and Goethe." —Wikipedia
The inscribed names outline a defense of liberal education
perhaps more robust than the Feb. 26 effort of Andrew Delbanco,
which University Diaries calls "tepid." (See the previous Log24 post.)