Frank Stringfellow Barr (Rhodes 1917)
Tulane University. University of Virginia. Rhodes Scholar, Balliol University, University of Oxford.
He was active in World Federal Government in Paris (executive council), and was a member of the adult education board of the Columbia Broadcasting System (from 1938) and other professional and scholarly groups.[3]
1971 - Published, The Voices That Endured.[3]
1966 to 1969 - Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Influential think tank from 1959 to 1977. Key People Robert M. Hutchins (Wolf’s head), Chester Carlson, William O. Douglas (Freemason. Beta Theta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa) and Harry Ashmore.[3]
1966 - Published, The Mask of Jove.[3]
1963 - Published, The Three Worlds of Man..[3]
1962 - Published, The Will of Zeus.[3]
1958 - Published, Purely Academic, a novel.[3]
1956 - Published, The Kitchen Garden Book.[3]
1955 to 1964 - Professor of humanities at Newark College of Rutgers University.[3]
1955 - Published Copydog in India.[3]
1952 - Published Citizens of the World.[3]
1951 to 1953 - Visiting Professor of Political Science at the University of Virgina.[3]
1950 - Published Let’s Join the Human Race.[3]
1949 - Published Pilgrimage of Western Man..[3]
1948 to 1958 - President of Foundation for World Government.[3]
1944 to 1946 - Advisory editor for the British edition of the Great Books.[3]
He instituted a completely new cirriculum consisting of four years of reading great books (120 classics), mastering the reading of two foreign languages, spending three hundred hours in laboratory sciences, and becoming competent in liberal arts and proficient in mathematics. Barr believed that colleges should abolish the elective system, relinquish specialized education, relinquish specialized education, and abandon texts in favour of four years of reading the great books.[3]
1937 to 1946 - President of St. John’s College.
1935, Published, Mazzini, Portrait of an Excile.
1926 to 1930, Advisory Editor, 1930 to 1934, Editor of Quarterly Review
WW1, 1917 to 1919 - Ambulance Service and Surgeon General’s office.
Died 3 Feb 1982, from Not Known. Age 85
Note: Not official Logo for foundation for world government. Could not find one. I’m sure it would have been less cold industrial in design.
[2] - Find a grave - Frank Stringfellow Barr (Rhodes 1917)
[3] - Biographical Dictionary of American Educators edited by John F. Ohles
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