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Delivered a speech [http://www.columbia.edu/~tdk3/erskine.html "The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent"] at Amherst before WWI which is believed to embody the philosophy behind the formation of the Great Books seminar which became Lit Hum.
 
Delivered a speech [http://www.columbia.edu/~tdk3/erskine.html "The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent"] at Amherst before WWI which is believed to embody the philosophy behind the formation of the Great Books seminar which became Lit Hum.
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The Father of the Core Curriculum. Had the brazen audacity to suggest that the classics be read in translation instead of the original latin or greek.

Delivered a speech "The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent" at Amherst before WWI which is believed to embody the philosophy behind the formation of the Great Books seminar which became Lit Hum.