Experiments

Old Westbury Oral History Project

The college’s first president describes conversations among faculty, administrators and student planners over curricula, the college’s organization, and students’ role in college decision-making. Wofford championed the “Great Conversation going on that has engaged the human race throughout history,” but he maintained the “best-sellers of 3000 years” had “shifted from Antigone to Malcolm X, from the Symposium to [Marshall] McLuhan.”

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