A Flowering Hawthorne Tree At The Rear Entrance Door Of The University of Chicago’s Cobb Lecture Hall. This Is One of The Main Classroom Buildings for the University. ….Photo Approximately June 9, 2002.
…A View Looking North Along South Ellis Ave. The University’s Hospital Is At Left & Their Bookstore Is One Block Ahead, On Left. This Bookstore Was Where Phaedrus & Class Went To, Along This Sidewalk, For Coffee.
…The ZMM Narrator Now Returns to Phaedrus’s Story at the University of Chicago.
….“The leaders of the revolt were Robert Maynard Hutchins, who had become president of the University of Chicago; Mortimer Adler, whose work on the psychological background of the law of evidence was somewhat similar to work being done at Yale by Hutchins; Scott Buchanan, a philosopher and mathematician; and most important of all for Phædrus, the present chairman of the committee, who was then a Columbia University Spinozist and medievalist.”
PASSAGE RE: COFFEE from ZMM Ch. 30
… The next time the class in Ideas and Methods 251, Rhetoric, met at the large round table in South Chicago, a department secretary announced that the Professor of Philosophy was ill. The following week he was still ill. The somewhat bewildered remnants of the class, which had dwindled to a third of its size, went on their own across the street for coffee.
At the coffee table a student whom Phædrus had marked as bright but intellectually snobbish said, "I consider this one of the most unpleasant classes I have ever been in." He seemed to look down on Phædrus with womanish peevishness as a spoiler of what should have been a nice experience.
… "I thoroughly agree," Phædrus said. He waited for some sort of attack, but it didn’t come.
The other students seemed to sense that Phædrus was the cause of all this but they had nothing to go on. Then an older woman at the other end of the coffee table asked why he was attending the class.
… "I’m in the process of trying to discover that," Phædrus said.
… "Do you attend full-time?" she asked.
… "No, I teach full-time at Navy Pier."
… "What do you teach?"
… "Rhetoric."
… She stopped talking and everyone at the table looked at him and became silent.
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Cobb Lecture Hall is on the West end of University of Chicago’s Central Quadrangle.
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NOTE1:
...Hawthorn is a genus (Crataegus) of several hundreds of species of shrubs and trees that occur in the Northern Hemisphere across four continents. The ‘haws,” the fruit of the Hawthorn, have a long history of being used as food source in various places, as well as being a food source for birds, other animals. The flowers are a source of food for nectar feeding moths and butterflies. Among the several common names for the Hawthorn are May-tree and Mayflower, which corresponds with our photo taken June 9, 2022, although this tree may be a late bloomer. We identified this tree using the University of Chicago’s Campus Tree Inventory map available here =>
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Learn more about Hawthorn here: Click Here Learn More About Hawthorn
(Photo = 101-0143 ...... ZMM Page = 309 ...... WayPt = ~034m 0590 ft)
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