p. ix: Edward Gibbon, Autobiography, ed. William B. Howell (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1877), 43.
p. 3: Brendan Behan, Borstal Boy (New York: Knopf, 1959), 3.
p. 7: James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 24–33.
p. 13: William Wordsworth, “The Solitary Reaper.”
pp. 13–14: John Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer,” “Ode to a Nightingale.”
p. 17: William Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798.”
pp. 25–26: Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters (New York: Knopf, 2002), 98.
pp. 41–42: William Wordsworth, “The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind: 1. Childhood.”
p. 51: Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 37.
p. 54: John Milton, “Il Penseroso.”
p. 69: Alan Bennett, The History Boys (New York: Faber and Faber, 2006), 42.
p. 91: William Shakespeare, The Tempest, 1.2.50.
p. 102: Kenneth J. Dover, Marginal Comment: A Memoir (London: Duckworth, 1994), 146–48.
p. 105: Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936), 11.
pp. 132–33: Dover, Marginal Comment, 247–48.
p. 150: Robert Burns, “To a Mouse.”
p. 151: Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Book of the Duchess.” This is the earliest of his major poems.
pp. 194–95: Thomas Osborne Davis, “The West’s Asleep.” Davis was one of the leaders of the mid-nineteenth century “Young Ireland Movement.” The poem is available online.
pp. 206–7: Rudyard Kipling, “Gentlemen-rankers.”
p. 216: Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The “Objectivity Question” and the American Historical Profession (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 366.
p. 217: George Marsden, The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 415.
p. 229: James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1949), passim.
p. 229: Samuel Hopkins, cited in Wyllis E. Wright, Colonel Ephraim Williams: A Documentary Life (Pittsfield, MA: Berkshire County Historical Society, 1970), 6.
pp. 231–32: The will is printed in Wyllis E. Wright, Colonel Ephraim Williams: A Documentary Life (Pittsfield, MA: Berkshire County Historical Society, 1970), 151–57.
p. 233: Francis Oakley, Community of Learning: The American College and the Liberal Arts Tradition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 26.
p. 234: Connecticut Law Reports, Yale University vs the Town of New Haven, 71 Conn. (Jan., 1899), 316–39.
p. 265: Letter from J. E. Sawyer to F. C. Oakley, January 28, 1963. Williams College Archives.
p. 270: Philip Larkin, “Annus mirabilis.”
p. 272: Cited from Oakley, Community of Learning, 68.
p. 273: William Wordsworth, “The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement.”
pp. 276–77: Philip Selznick, Leadership in Administration: A Sociological Interpretation (Evanston, IL: Row, Peterson, 1957), 62–66, 138–39, 151.
p. 281: Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987), 313–56.
pp. 284–87: Minutes of the November 6 and December 18, 1968, faculty meetings, plus affiliated materials, Williams College Archives.
p. 300: George Orwell, 1984 (New York: New American Library, 1961), 32.
p. 301: An English translation of the oath is printed in Fergus Kerr, Twentieth-Century Catholic Theologians (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), 223–25.
pp. 301–2: Orestes Brownson cited from Owen Chadwick, From Bossuet to Newman, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 171.
p. 302: Paul VI’s words cited from John O’Malley, What Happened at Vatican II? (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008), 253.
pp. 303–4: For Lumen gentium and the “Preliminary Explanatory Note,” see Norman P. Tanner S.J., ed., Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, 2 vols. (London and Washington, DC: Sheed & Ward and Georgetown University Press, 1990), 2:265–67, 899–900.
p. 307: Paul de Vooght, Les pouvoirs du concile et l’autorité du pape au concile de Constance (Paris: Cerf, 1965), 198.
pp. 307–8: Hans Küng, Structures of the Church, trans. Salvator Attanasio (New York: T. Nelson, 1964), 284–85, 301–2.
p. 313: Robert Cardinal Bellarmine, Risposta di Card. Bellarmino al Trattato dei sette Theologi di Venetia sopra l’interdetto dello Santità di Nostio Signore Papa Paolo Quintio (Rome: Guglielmo Facciotto, 1606), 22–28.
p. 314: Review by Albert C. Outler in Journal of Ecumenical Studies 7 (1970): 804–6, and my (puzzled) response, “Papacy under Fire: A Rejoinder,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 8 (1971): 382–84.
p. 328: Francis Oakley, “Celestial Hierarchies Revisited: Walter Ullmann’s Vision of Medieval Politics,” Past and Present 60 (1973), 3–48.
p. 332: Martin Anderson, Impostors in the Temple: American Intellectuals are Destroying Our Universities and Cheating Our Students of their Future (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), 85.
p. 332: Charles Sykes, Profscam: Professors and the Demise of Higher Education (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990), 54.
pp. 332–33: Lesley Stahl, segment of 60 Minutes, aired on February 26, 1998, on CBS.
p. 337: Robert A. McCaughey, Scholars and Teachers: The Faculties of Select Liberal Arts Colleges and their Place in American Higher Learning (New York: Barnard College and the Mellon Foundation, 1995), esp. ix, 41–46, 92–93, 103–5.
pp. 337–38: Alexander W. Astin and Mitchell J. Chang, “Colleges That Emphasize Research and Teaching: Can You Have Your Cake and Eat It Too?,” Change 27 (1995), 45–48.
p. 370: James B. Wood, The Williams Curriculum, 1973–85: Action during the Presidency of John W. Chandler (Williamstown, MA: Dec. 1985), 96. In Williams College Archives.
pp. 372–75: The “blue pamphlet,” entitled The Curriculum at Williams: Report on the Non-Major Segment, was submitted to the faculty in April 1979 by the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Curriculum. And the “pink pamphlet,” circulated among the faculty in May 1979, was entitled Some Observations and Reservations Concerning the Working Group’s Curricular Proposition. See also the minutes of the meetings of the faculty on April 25 and May 16, 1979. All of these documents are in the Williams College Archives.
pp. 384–86: See the minutes for the February 9, 1983, meeting of the faculty, reconvened on February 16, 1983. In Williams College Archives.
pp. 396–97: Michael D. Cohen and James G. March, Leadership and Ambiguity: The American College President, 2nd ed. (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1986), 1–3, 81, 149, 203.
p. 410: Selznick, Leadership in Administration, 62–64, 138–39, 151.
p. 410: James MacGregor Burns, Leadership (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), 425.
p. 411: Howard Gardner, Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership (New York: Basic Books, 1995), 14–15, 37, 42–43, 63, 203.
p. 412: Robert N. Bellah, et al., Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), 153–54.
p. 413: Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961), 65.
pp. 451–54: Letters: J. E. Sawyer to F. C. Oakley, October 5, 1987; Oakley to Sawyer, October 13, 1987; Sawyer to Oakley, January 4, 1988; and Sawyer to Oakley, March 17, 1988. In Williams Colleges Archives.
pp. 472–74: President’s remarks at the February 10, 1993, meeting of the faculty. In Williams College Archives.
p. 478: The books cited here are all listed and discussed in Oakley, Community of Learning.
p. 493: The Emergence consists of three volumes, all published by Yale University Press: Empty Bottles of Gentilism (2010), The Mortgage of the Past (2012), and The Watershed of Modern Politics (2015).
p. 496: Étienne Gilson, Dante and Philosophy, trans. David Moore (Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1968), vii–x.
p. 496: James Hankins, ed. Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and Reflections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 1.
p. 497: A. M. Hocart, Kings and Councillors: An Essay in the Comparative Anatomy of Human Society, edited and with an introduction by Rodney Needham (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970), 12.
p. 499: Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. James Reeves (London: Heinemann, 1959), 16.
p. 502: Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (New York: New American Library, 1948), 19–20.