What happened in the IHP at the University of Kansas?
No one will ever be able to capture what the exact feel, tone, excitement and wonder was of the Integrated Humanities Program taught by the three professors, John Senior, Dennis Quinn, and Frank Nelick. At the risk of sounding elitist, one had to be there. To answer the question about the IHP in those days is something like Our Lord’s answer to Andrew and Simon Peter who asked Him where He lived. He simply said: “Come and see”. In a letter by Andre Charlier from the collection, Lettre aux Capitain, he reflects on the end of his ten year experiment in tradition and the success at Maslacq. He says, “it is difficult to know what we did there”. Charlier means it is impossible to know not only what he achieved, but how. This is because he was man who taught by the Muses and the Holy Spirit. This was certainly the case with the IHP taught completely in the poetic mode. Even the great books of philosophy and history and science were presented as to capture the students’ love and admiration of
