We meet people like John Erskine, the grandfather of the Great Books movement and a “gentleman of the old school,” as Beam describes him. Erskine believed a great book was one that “has meaning, and ...

Directed Studies, Yale’s year-long Great Books program for first-year undergraduates, could expand by as much as 25 percent next year, Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis said in an interview. On ...

Columbia University has taken the next step in its plan to add new multicultural classes to its core curriculum, the great books undergraduate program. The university announced it would spend $50 ...

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