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The article focuses on two books "The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art" and "The Cardiff Team: Ten Stories," by Guy Davenport. On the long march through the woods of the world, humankind seeks a lamp by which it will be led. Goodly guidance, then, is a thoroughly human need and in the world of arts and letters, Davenport, poet, painter, translator, fictionist and critic, has been for decades an indispensable guide in all the darkness. As an essayist, Davenport has treated a gallimaufry of subjects in his previous collections. Davenport's genius is in charting connections the invisible contiguities between continents of human make, the family resemblances between the far-flung forces.

The author looks at how computer science will transform the humanities. According to the author, algorithmic thinking is transforming both the descriptive sciences and the humanities, bringing them all closer to the mathematical core of computer science. The author discusses the continually increasing reliance on computation, the replacement of paper library collections with online databases and the use of online resources by students writing papers.

Relates the author's experience in delivering her first paper for the Graduate Student Caucus at the Modern Language Association conference in the humanities in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Overview of the conference paper; Impact of the conference paper on her professional life; Career background of the author.

Presents an update related to humanities in the U.S. as of May 2005. Release of the verbatim electronic version of the book "Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower," edited by Louis Galambos and Daun van Ee; Total amount of grants awarded to various institutions for projects involving the preservation of materials significant to American cultural history by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); Humanities scholars who received fellowships from the NEH.

Education in the Buddhist tradition must find a middle ground between the disengaged academic programs of Buddhist studies departments and the traditional Buddhist training academies for monastics. The author, a senior disciple of the late Master Hsüan Hua, outlines some of the goals set out by his teacher concerning Buddhist education in the modern world. This paper was prepared for the third convocation of the World Buddhist Conference, held in Hong Kong in April 2012. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the state of foreign-language learning in Great Britain at all levels. According to the British Academy's 2009 paper "Language Matters," the recent trends in foreign-language learning may tarnish the distinction of British scholarship within the humanities and social sciences. The 2004 decision of the British government to make languages optional for pupils ages 14 to 16 has allegedly led to the increase in the proportion of school children doing no languages at all. Such issues pose threats to research and language skills supply.

The article reports on the grants awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as of October 2020 for the advancement of humanities projects. Also cited are the NEH's grant to iCivics for the promotion of the "Educating for American Democracy: A Roadmap for Excellence in History and Civics Education for All Learners" project, as well as other initiatives like editing of the collected papers of U.S. presidents like George Washington, John Adams and James Monroe.

Presents an overview of articles published on several journals about education. Topics discussed in the journal Arts and Humanities in Higher Education; Focus of the article Selectivity, Admission and Intakes to Comprehensive Schools in London, England in the journal Educational Studies; Arguments presented in the articles A Bad White paper and a Bad Education Bill and in Another Day, Another White Paper in the journal Forum for Promoting 3-19 Comprehensive Education.

Presents an update on humanities in the U.S. as of March 2005. Grants awarded to the Save America's Treasures program to help conserve historic properties and collections; Total value of grants awarded by the America's Historic Places program to historical sites and organizations to interpret historic sites; Publication of the book "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Threshold of a New Decade, January 1959-December 1960," volume 5.

The article presents an update of issues related to the social sciences and humanities online information services in the U.S. as of May 2004. The American Psychological Association will license from EBSCO the content contained in the former e-psyche database. Approximately 15,000 records from newsletters and other similar materials will enter PsycEXTRA, the association's new gray literature database. Other PsycEXTRA documents include research reports not submitted to scholarly journals, convention papers and abstracts, policy papers, newsletters, magazines, popular books, consumer brochures, curricula, and fact sheets. ProQuest Information and Learning announced the third release of the online collection American Drama, covering more than 1,100 dramatic works from the Colonial period to the beginning of the 20th century. David Belasco, Joaquin Miller, Clyde Fitch, and James Herne are among the leading post-Civil War playwrights added to American Drama 1714-1915. ProQuest also announced the first release of Twentieth Century Drama. When complete, the new database will contain 2,500 plays in English, the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present day, all in searchable full text. H.W. Wilson released its updated Humanities& Social Sciences Index Retrospective 1907-1984, which features cover to cover indexing of some 1,200 scholarly journals with 1,300,000 articles.

Provides information on the projects submitted by the United States National Endowment for the Humanities that will share in a White House initiative to `Save America's Treasures.' Antislavery Pamphlet Collection at Cornell University Library, Ithaca, New York; Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Papers at Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts; Dutch Colonial Manuscripts at New York State Archives, Albany.

This section offers news briefs on grants and acquisitions. A collaborative partnership between the University of Florida and Duke University was awarded 240,804 U.S. dollars from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Florida Digital Newspaper Library will be broadly access through an award of 21,753 U.S. dollars from the State Archives of Florida. The Claude and ZerNona Black Papers were acquired by the Special Collections and Archives of the Coates Library at Trinity University.

The article offers news briefs on social sciences and humanities. H.W. Wilson announced the addition of more than 62,000 images to its Art Museum Image Gallery database. ProQuest Information and Learning's digital House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1801-1900 is made available to all 2-year colleges and 4-year universities in Great Britain through funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and ProQuest.

Describes the emotional anxiety of Nothan Abram on his first conference paper as a postgraduate student in Modern US History in Southampton University in England.

Reports on the release of the "Towards a Unified E-Learning Strategy", a dissertation paper by the Department for Education and Skills, which stresses the need for use of online assessment to improvement teaching efficiency in Great Britain. Level of achievement for a conventional exam; Improvement of researching assessment in history, humanities and socials sciences; Reliability of the method introduce in the dissertation.

Comments on some principles that humanities journals should fulfill to diminish the utility of the papers to be published. Role of peer review; Need to define a time limit for author's responses; Length of appearance of accepted articles in print; Journal's publication of their impact factors and the comparative impact factor range within their own field.