The Rebirth Of Liberal Education by Fred B. Millett. Harcourt Brace. $2.00.
Professor Millett of Wesleyan University belongs to a minority group now much exercised over a policy of higher education: the rescue of the “humanities” from the poor state into which they have fallen. He writes strongly: The humanities must be restored to their “primary position” if we are to have “liberal” education. And it is true the so-called humanistic studies have gone to seed. But it is hard to see how they will recover vigor by disparaging the natural and social sciences—as if these were not in their duty too, and did not belong likewise in a liberal education. The college graduate who has not received instruction in the basic conceptions and methods of the modern sciences is too innocent to go out into the world, and has been put upon. He has not the qualifications even for the broad vocation of being intelligently human. Professor Millett writes:
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