Do-it-yourself kit for constructing an autobiography of Will Humphreys

Instructions: Pick any five of the following descriptive statements.

1. A broad, scholarly person who has read
widely in several related fields and
interdisciplinary areas, who has published
some respectable stuff, and who can teach
several things at the college level.
 
 

2. A dilettante who has dabbled in science, philosophy and history, but has done little with any of them.

3. A student-centered teacher who tries to teach students to function on their own, and who is infinitely patient with students.

4. An arrogant eastern intellectual who went to Yale (ugh!).

5. A disciple of the Cadwallader-Tussman-Meiklejohn school of idealistic metaphysics.

6. A logical positivist.

7. A bold, principled person who declined tenure at another institution in protest against the use and abuse of academic privilege.

8. A dangerous and sometimes irascible chap who offends colleagues with blunt remarks; a person intolerant of human failings in others but quite willing to ask others to forgive his.

9. A relatively easy person to work with; undemanding of others, very demanding on himself.

10. The fellow who played drums with, and wrote a few pieces for, the college jazz ensemble last year.

11. A spokesman for academic conservatism who would like to see Evergreen forsake its silly experiments and get back to the traditional ways under powerful administrative control.

12. A veteran radical in experimental education who habitually challenges authority, received dogma, and the usual ways of doing things.

13. A deep, dark pessimist, who--were he a Christian--would believe in original sin.

14. An incurable optimist about human nature.

15. Other:

(To be supplied ad libitum)