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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 21 No. 2, F. N. Boney, Major L. Wilson, David R. Roediger, Donald E. Shepardson, Lee Ellis, Philip Bordinat, Linda M. Hasselstrom, David Clewell, Ronald Wallace, Dave Etter, Charles Edward Eaton, Robert Siegel, Jack Flavin, Jessie Bier, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

F. N. BONEY, who suggests that legend has exaggerated the military prowess of the South, received his Ph.D. from The University of Virginia and teaches history at The University of Georgia. He has published widely in French and English on aspects of Southern history. A French version of "The Military Tradition in the South" appeared as a chapter in Le systeme militaire des Etats-Unis: bilan et perspectives, ed. Lucien Mandeville (Toulouse, 1976).

MAJOR L. WILSON, who explains a nineteenth-century religious controversy between organicists and their fundamentalist opponents, received his Ph.D. from The University of Kansas …

4. Mark (Novel), Matthew Lipman

Secondary School Curriculum

The high school has been vandalized, and Mark is arrested at the scene of the crime. He claims he is a “victim of society.” But what is society? What forces hold it together or work to pull it apart? These are questions to which Mark and his classmates address themselves. What they seek are ways of evaluating social institutions, rules and values, so as to determine how well society is able to live up to the ideals which, at one time or another, have been set for it. They pay particular attention to the nature of law and crime, tradition, …

Restitution, Punishment, And Debts To Society, Richard Dagger

Political Science Faculty Publications

Of the many developments in the area of criminal justice over the last twenty years or so, the rediscovery of the victim may well be the most heartening. This rediscovery has produced both a new field of study, victimology, and a number of interesting programs and proposals that aim to redress the injuries suffered by the victims of crime. To this point, however, the rediscovery of the victim has not worked a fundamental transformation of our system of criminal justice. The question I wish to address here is whether it should do so.

An Examination Of Scholarly Perspective, Religiosity And Factors Which Lead To Religious Change, Paul Fehrmann

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

As a replication and expansion of work done by Alsdurf (1977), the relations between religiosity, commitment to scholarly openness and reasons for religious change were examined through a survey of 146 students attending a South-central university. A discussion of logical and empirical studies was presented to help clarify the theses under examination, and it was maintained that this study was primarily concerned with empirical relationships. A negative correlation was obtained between scholarly openness and religiosity for the total population studied, but the correlation was weak. In contrast to expectations, a significant negative correlation between scholarly openness and religiosity was not …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 21 No. 1, Martin E. Spencer, Kim Ezra Shienbaum, Donald E. Shepardson, Haig A. Bosmajian, David L. Paletz, Richard Gambino, Katherine F. Nutt, Gorman Beauchamp, L. W. Michaelson, Brian Murphy, Barry D. Bort, F. N. Boney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

TWENTY YEARS AGO, Dudley T. Cornish launched The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought. Since that time, we have published nearly five hundred articles on art, biology, drama, economics, fiction, government, history, law, pedagogy, philosophy, poetry, politics, psychology, rhetoric, sociology, and even thermodynamics. Since 1960, MQ also has published poetry, at which a later issue will glance back. To the editors, "contemporary thought" never has meant primarily "thought on contemporary events," and our contributors have been concerned not only with the contemporary world but also with classicial antiquity and the Middle Ages; nevertheless, it …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 20 No. 4, Lamar York, Thomas L. Jeffers, Henry Alley, Walter Shear, William T. Liston, W. P. Fitzpatrick, J. W. Cullum, Linda M. Hasselstrom, Lyn Lifshin, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Theodora Todd, Gene Degruson, Sue J. Livingston, Michael E. Connaughton, Carol Walter Mackay, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue . . .

LAMAR YORK, who looks into the milieu of "Widsith," teaches English at DeKalb College in Atlanta and is working on his doctorate at Emory University. This is his second appearance in MQ.

THOMAS L. JEFFERS, who finds an Eden on the banks of George Eliot's Floss, received his Ph. D. from Yale and teaches English at Cornell. He has published articles on nineteenth-century fiction.

HENRY ALLEY, who investigates the intellectual underground of Eliot's Middlemarch, received his Ph. D. from Cornell and teaches English at The University of Idaho. He has published a number of …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 20 No. 3, Roland N. Stromberg, Haig Bosmajian, James O. Robertson, Michael Vaughan Woodward, Martin E. Spencer, Clarence N. Stone, Robert K. Whelan, Albert Goldbarth, Bruce Culter, Michael E. Connaughton, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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ROLAND N. STROMBERG, who finds in 1914 a brand of irrationalism not unlike Hitler's and that of some recent American activists, received his Ph. D. from The University of Maryland and teaches history at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has published several books and numerous articles.

HAIG BOSMAJIAN, who examines recent court decisions on freedom of speech, received his Ph. D. from Stanford and teaches speech at The University of Washington. Among his many publications are three books on freedom of speech.

JAMES O. ROBERTSON, who traces the rise of the employee to the …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 20 No. 2, Donald R. Mccoy, Ronald Christenson, George E. Munro, William F. Pray, Donald E. Secrest, Sr. Madeleine Kisner, J. W. Cullum, Jonathan Holden, William Kloefkorn, Ron Slate, Mark Vinz, Robert Ratzlaff, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue . . .

DONALD R. McCOY, who looks at recent trends in presidential biography, received his Ph. D. from American University and teaches history at The University of Kansas. He has published six books and manifold articles.

RONALD CHRISTENSON, who explains the premises of apartheid, received his Ph. D. from The University of Minnesota and teaches political science at Gustavus Adolphus College. He has published a number of articles.

GEORGE E. MUNRO, who examines the Sakharov case, teaches history at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

WILLIAM F. PRAY, who investigates the reasons for Soviet toleration of dissent, …

A Study Of Basic Characteristics Of "The Man Of Tao" Of Lao Tzu And "Self-Actualizing People" Of Maslow, Kuang-Fu Chang

Masters Theses

This thesis serves two purposes: One, it reveals the influences of Taoist philosophy on Maslow's humanistic psychology which has become the third force in the field of psychology; secondly it lets all those who have regarded Chinese classics as nothing but a bundle of obsolete stuffs know that an archaic well still has fresh water to be drawn out to use.

In Tao Te Ching, or Lao Tzu the book, the man of Tao and innocent child are highly praised by Lao Tzu and may be referred to as ideal characters of his mind. Metaphysically, Tao is the Way, the …

The Influence Of Alexander Bain And Herbert Spencer Upon William James, David D. Nelson

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This study investigates the influence of Alexander Bain (1818-1903) and Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) upon William James (1842-1910). James is generally considered to be the foremost American psychologist and the one who "introduced" experimental psychology to the United States. James had become familiar with the psychological writings of Bain and Spencer early in his career, and he used Spencer's The Principles of Psychology and later Bain's The Senses and the Intellect and The Emotions and the Will as textbooks for his course in psychology at Harvard. Bain was foremost English psychologist at that time, and Spencer was widely known as a …

"Is Human Understanding Finite?", Peter Brian Medawar

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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 20 No. 1, Richard W. Noland, Conrad Joyner, John J. Havic, Florence Heffron, Peter J. Kellog, Sondra Van Meeter, Elaine H. Kim, Jack Flavin, Gary Margolis, Ralph J. Mills Jr., Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue . . .

RICHARD W. NOLAND, who examines the relatively new genre and discipline called psychobiography, received his M.D. from Emory and his Ph. D. from Columbia. He is chairman of the English Department at The University of Massachusetts and has published a number of articles on literature and psychology.

CONRAD JOYNER, who suggests the elimination of the civil service system as a means of making our public servants more responsive to the will of the voters, received his Ph. D. from The University of Florida and teaches political science at the University of Arizona. He is …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 19 No. 4, Anthony S. Brennan, Velma Bourgeois Richmond, Stephen J. Teller, V. J. Emmett Jr., Judith Weissman, James F. Knapp, Craig Churry, Dave Etter, Michael Finley, Ralph J. Mills Jr., Alicia Ostriker, Robert K. Ratzlaff, Paul W. Zagerski, Donald F. Kerle, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue . . .

ANTHONY S. BRENNAN, who shows how Antony and Cleopatra play their roles as lovers and rulers, received his Ph. D. from McMaster University in Ontario where he teaches English. His articles and stories have appeared in a number of magazines, and he has published two novels.

VELMA BOURGEOIS RICHMOND, who examines Shakespeare's attitudes toward women, received her Ph. D. from North Carolina and teaches English at Holy Names College in Oakland. She has published two books and numerous articles on English literature.

STEPHEN J. TELLER, who investigates Shakespeare's use of his source for Titus …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 19 No. 3, Christopher Clausen, Robert S. Mcelvaine, Melvin G. Holli, Judith Shaw, Loring Allen, David Kanervo, Thomas Heffernan, Thomas Mcafee, William Meissner, Judith Johnson Sherwin, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue . . .

CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN, who takes the schoolmarms' side against the linguists, teaches English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has published essays and poetry in numerous journals.

ROBERT S. McELVAINE, who looks at the "New South," teaches history at Milsaps College. He has published essays on American politics.

MELVIN G. HOLLI, who examines Detroit's problems, teaches history at The University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. He is the author of two books on Detroit. His The Ethnic Frontier, coedited with Peter d' A Jones, will be reviewed in another issue of MQ. …

Dialectical Laws And Elementary Catastrophes, Martin Zwick

Complex Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations

In the newly developed Catastrophe Theory of Rene Thorn and E.C. Zeeman, it is possible to find mathematical interpretation of certain aspects of Hegelian and Marxist dialectics. Specifically, the three "classical" dialectical principles, (1) the transformation of quantity into quality, ( 2) the mutual interpenetration(or - the unity and struggle) of opposites, and (3) the negation of the negation, can be modeled using the seven "elementary catastrophe " given by Thom , especially the catastrophe known as the "cusp." Far from being an empty metaphysics or scholasticism, as critics have argued , these principles embody genuine insights into a class …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 19 No. 2, Stephen L. Tanner, Steven T. Ryan, Sam B. Girgus, Emilio De Grazia, Homer H. Morris, Carrol L. Fry, Jared Stein, Charles Edward Eaton, Jonathan Gillespie, Steven Hind, Robert Holland, Philip Legler, Tomas O'Leary, Ronald Wallace, A. G. Sobin, Nance Van Winckel, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue . . .

STEPHEN L. TANNER, who discusses the challenge to the humanities presented by the current emphasis on quantitative measure, received his Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin and teaches English at the University of Idaho. His articles, mostly on American literature, have appeared in numerous journals.

STEVEN T. RYAN, who assesses the importance of Kuhn's theory of scientific paradigms to our understanding of literary history and of contemporary literature, received his Ph. D. from the University of Utah and teaches English at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee.

SAM B. GIRGUS, who examines a …

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

WKU Administration Documents

Papers representative of the variety of scholarly research conducted at WKU.

• Adams, Kathy. The Appalachian Language
• Barnett, Philip. A Study of Deviant Behavior of XYY Individuals in Regard to Environment and Genotype
• Bell, Brooks. Loving, Loyal Linda Loman: An Interpretive Note
• Danhauer, Janice. Motivating Workers Through Job Design
• Davis, Barbara. The Transformation of a Man into a Man of Understanding in Murinbata Society
• Davis, Diane. The Argot of the Homosexual
• Jewell, Teresa. The Life Story of the Hero of World War I - Sergeant Alvin C. York
• Lanham, Wayne. Das Knarrenschiff and a Ship of Fools: A Study in Influence …

Concepts Of Ethos In Classical And Modern Rhetoric, Corinne Thomley

Masters Theses

Statement of Purpose:

Ethos, or the character of the speaker, is a subject of interest to students of rhetoric. This study traces the concepts of ethos from classical to modern times, and identifies philosophical value systems on which these concepts are based.

Hypothesis:

The study explores the hypothesis that similarities and differences exist between classical and modern concepts of ethos and that the concepts can generally be identified with philosophical value systems.

Criteria and Procedure:

The study is focussed by the following seven questions:

1. What philosophical value systems provided the bases for the concepts of ethos set forth by classical …

Moral Education: An Investigation And Experiment, Ellen L. Throm

Masters Theses

One purpose of this investigation of moral education in the elementary schools, was to find information in order to evaluate the current status of moral education at this level.

Another part of the investigation was to experiment with presenting and teaching moral education principles in a fifth-grade classroom, and make a report of the results.

The thesis was written to satisfy the final requirements for a Specialist Degree in Guidance and Counseling, at Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois.

In order to conduct the investigation on moral education, several books were researched (a bibliography is included) for information.

A commercially prepared …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 19 No. 1, Robert J. Chaffin, Eric J. Cardinal, Margaret B. Mcdowell, Mark S. Simpson, Sanford Pinkser, James B. Schick, Peter Cooley, Albert Goldbarth, Philip Legler, Bill Tremblay, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue . . .

ROBERT K. RATZLAFF, who is the most recent addition to our Board of Editors, did his undergraduate work at Kansas State University and received his Ph. D. from The University of Kansas and is associate professor of history at Pittsburg State University. Most of his publications are in American history.

ROBERT J. CHAFFIN, who asks whether the American Revolution was really revolutionary, received his Ph. D. from Indiana University and teaches history at The University of Wisconsin—Oshkosh. He has published numerous articles and is working on his second book.

ERIC J. CARDINAL, who investigates …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 18 No. 4, Carol Helmstetter Cantrell, Brian Murphy, Sophia B. Blaydes, Judith Weissman, Randolph Perazzini, Mary W. Schneider, Thomas O. Calhoun, David Clewell, Gerald Costanzo, Albert Goldbarth, Ron Slate, Jack Carpenter, Ernest Gallo, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue . . .

ERNEST GALLO, whose story "Pain and Suffering" appears in the Looking Forward section of this issue, teaches medieval literature at The University of Massachusetts.

CAROL H. CANTRELL, who reexamines the relationships among "confessional" poets and who also reviews Albert Goldbarth's Comings Back, received her Ph. D. from Northwestern University and teaches at Colorado State University.

BRIAN MURPHY, who explains what one of the angry young men was angry about, did his graduate work at Harvard and The University of London and teaches at Oakland University in Michigan. He has published articles on the film …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 18 No. 3, Robert I. Burns S. J., Gerald G. Eggert, Roland N. Stromberg, David H. Katz, Lawrence E. Gray, Oliver B. Pollak, Jack Flavin, Philip K. Jason, Ed Ochester, Katharine Privett, Randy Russell, Elaine Smokewood, Walter Shear, Randolph Perazzini, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue . . .

ROBERT I. BURNS, S. J., who writes about Aragon and the growing emphasis placed on the Mediterranean area by contemporary medieval historians, holds earned doctorates from both Fribourg and Johns Hopkins. He has recently moved to U. C. L. A. from the University of San Francisco, where his paper was delivered as an address before the faculty. He has published four major books and numerous articles.

GERALD G. EGGERT, who gives us another perspective on diplomatic contact between the U.S. and China, received his Ph. D. from the University of Michigan and teaches American …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 18 No. 2, Jane Nardin, Marvin Mandell, Mark J. Sachner, Duane Edwards, Harry J. Ausmus, Francis E. Devine, Charles G. Masinton, Dave Etter, Louis Ginsberg, Edward Hirsch, Ben Howard, Christopher Howell, Jennings Blackmon, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue . . .

JANE NARDIN, who writes about attitudes toward the past and the present in Waugh's A Handful of Dust, received her Ph. D. from SUNY at Buffalo and teaches English at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. She has published a book on Jane Austen and a number of articles and reviews.

MARVIN MANDELL, who disputes Rollo May's view of "Billy Budd" and of events at Kent State, received his Ph. D. from the University of Iowa and teaches at Curry College. His short stories have appeared in a number of magazines, and one of them was …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 18 No. 1, Duncan R. Jamieson, Clarence D. Long, D. E. Shepardson, William L. Burton, Ronald W. Johnson, Walter L. Arnstein, David L. Paletz, Gibbons Ruark, Robert K. Ratzlaff, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue . . .

DUNCAN R. JAMIESON, who looks into Atlanta's biracial politics, received his Ph. D. from Michigan State University and teaches history at the University of Alabama. He has published on a number of topics related to urban reforms.

CLARENCE D. LONG, who suggests that we redirect our foreign aid, received his Ph. D. from Princeton and was Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins before his election to the U.S. Congress, where he represents Maryland's second district. He is the author of seven books. His major articles began to appear in 1936, and he has continued …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 17 No. 4, Eugene Current-Garcia, Robert L. Coard, Robert Roulston, John R. Milton, Marilyn Mitchell, Dave Smith, Raymond Flory, Roberta F. S. Borkat, Philip Dacey, Dave Etter, Stuart Friebert, Ben Howard, Christopher Howell, Ted Kooser, Gibbons Ruark, Thom Tammaro, Warren Woessner, John Woods, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

IN THIS JULY, 1976 ISSUE of The Midwest Quarterly, we celebrate the Bicentennial of the American Revolution by devoting our space entirely to American literature.

EUGENE CURRENT-GARCIA, who traces the beginnings of American short fiction in our early magazines, teaches at Auburn University, where he edits the Southern Humanities Review. He is the author of the volume on O. Henry for the Twayne series and has co-edited four anthologies of short fiction. Many of his published articles deal with American fiction.

ROBERT L. COARD, who shows us Tom Sawyer in new perspectives, teaches at Saint Cloud State University. He has …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 17 No. 3, Lamar York, T. Mildred Wherritt, Eugénie Lambert Hammer, Barbara Meldrum, David E. Zehr, Arthur A. Ekirch Jr., Tomas O'Leary, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

GENE E. VOLLEN, who is the most recent addition to our Board of Editors, did his undergraduate work at Michigan State University and received his Ph. D. in musicology from North Texas State University. He is associate professor of music at KSCP.

LAMAR YORK, who investigates the authorship of the earliest English secular lyrics, teaches English at DeKalb College in Atlanta and is working on his doctorate at Emory University.

T. MILDRED WHERRITT, who writes about marriage proposals in Austen's novels, is a graduate student at Wichita State University. She has published a number of poems.

EUGÉNIE LAMBERT HAMNER, who …

Ua35/11 Student Honors Bulletin, Vol. Iv, Wku Honors Program

WKU Administration Documents

The articles, all papers done for classes in the university honors program, are divided into three groups. The first group deals with science, especially the area of health care, one of the more practical applications of science in the modern age. The second group consists of three papers done for honor courses in which the major purpose was to expose the student to new areas of consciousness and have them respond orally and verbally to what they read, creative writing. The last group deals with the humanities, literature and religion, two of the more popular fields of the humanities today. …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 17 No. 2, John T. Hubbell, T. Michael Ruddy, Arthur Cyr, Walter Shear, Evelyn Helmick, Edward Marcotte, Dave Smith, James Cleghorn, Charles Edward Eaton, Philip Pierson, Ron Slate, Michael Waters, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

JOHN T. HUBBELL, who writes about the Schaper case, received his Ph. D. from the University of Illinois. He is associate professor of history at Kent State University, where he edits Civil War History. An article of his on Francis Parkman appeared in the QUARTERLY in 1966.

T. MICHAEL RUDDY, who writes about Bohlen, Kennan, and the post-war international situation, received his Ph. D. from Kent State University and teaches at Kent State's Tuscarawas Campus.

ARTHUR CYR, who brings us up to date on changes in the international situation as they involve the Atlantic countries, received his Ph. D. from …

Ua68/1 Forum, Wku Potter College Of Arts & Letters

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WKU Potter College of Arts & Letters faculty newsletter regarding faculty research and publications. This issue includes:

• Clarke, Kenneth. Snake Handling & Plato: Identifying Academic Folklore
• Mayhew, Larry. John T. Stahl, obituary

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 17 No. 1, Michael J. Cunningham, Scott Edwards, Michael A. Weinstein, Margaret C. Szasz, Ferenc M. Szasz, Sylvia Angus, Sam B. Girgus, Bernice Ames, Peter Cooley, Elaine V. Emans, Ruth Feldman, Nellie Hill, S. J. Marks, Judith Johnson Sherwin, Kim Stafford, Nancy G. Westerfield, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

TO INAUGURATE our seventeenth year, this October issue of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY ranges somewhat broadly over the "revisionism" of World War II history, the presentday youth cult, the current crisis in public responsibility, the emergence of the American Indian as a significant cultural influence, the vagaries of modem art, and finally the need for a new moral humanism.

MICHAEL J. CUNNINGHAM, with whose study of the controversial work of A. J. P. Taylor this issue begins, is a young man working on a master's degree in history at the University of Oregon, where he is employed as a teaching assistant …