[1.] In the front office: The ghost on the ramparts: a chairman on the chairmanship

[2.] In the classroom: reading, writing, teaching: Literature and growing up: the ends of literary study

The full man and the fullness thereof: printed page versus sound and light

Except he come to composition

The cult of personality: hell's spells

Teaching careers and graduate schools: programs and postures

[3.] At lectern, typewriter, and conference table: a problem of style: Freedom from speech: vigilance revisited

Verbal traffic and moral freight: gown and town

Clichés and anticlichés: critics and others

[4.] In the study: historical and critical approaches: The antiquarians and the up-to-date: attitudes toward history

Historian and critic: the types

[5.] At the bottom of everything: humanities: Outside the laws: the humanities versus the sciences

Humanisticism and melodrama: styles in combat

Humanistic education as comedy: a funambulist's analogy.