The Sciences as a Model for Unbiased Scholarship

To the Editor:

In "The Antidote to Academic Orthodoxy" (The Chronicle Review, April 23), Stephen H. Balch makes important points that are commonly overlooked in discussions of American higher education. One of these is his stress on the "enormous differences" between "the intellectual world of the natural sciences" and "that of humane learning." The fundamental difference between disciplines based on math or experiments and disciplines in the humanities and soft social sciences lies

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