cover image Free and Ordered Space: The Real World of the University

Free and Ordered Space: The Real World of the University

A. Bartlett Giamatti. W. W. Norton & Company, $30 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-393-30671-2

In this collection of essays, based on addresses given in the late '70s and '80s to Yale students, the emphasis is on academic mission, on what Giamatti terms ``civility.'' ``Eloquent in support of the values of a liberal education, these essays bespeak the product of such formation, a man at ease with the cultural flow of past and present,'' stated PW. (May)