Douglas M. Knight, L.H.D. '64
The Dancer and the Dance — One Man's Chronicle: Yale, Lawrence, Duke,
Questar. Hardcover,
208 pages; Separate Star, Inc., December 2002
Douglas Knight, president of Lawrence University from 1953 to 1963 and president of Duke University from 1963 to 1969, is described by one reviewer as "a truly educated person . . . [who] tried to make sense of the new currents he encountered in every post he held while remaining true to the values he internalized at Yale."
Another pre-publication reader says, "His whole account is most sensitively envisioned against a backdrop of American culture in the successive decades from the '40s to the end of the century . . . what is perhaps the most satisfying is to see it all come together in the closing pages, as if to answer the question all of us college teachers have had to ask: How does a first-rate liberal education justify itself in the 'four-dimensional world of our common experience?'"
Read a review of The Dancer and the Dance written by Richard Warch, president of Lawrence University.
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