He is widely credited with achieving that goal, and received an honorary degree from Princeton and another from Harvard for being "a wise and perceptive schoolman who has rallied his city to the cause of better public education".
4.15), He was never troubled, as a mediaeval schoolman might be, by a conflict between ecclesiastical dogma and the best thought of the ancients, because the Word who taught the ancients from afar is, for him, the daily shepherd of the Church.
Ibn Ezra was no schoolman, but he certainly experienced, and expressed in rich and evocative Hebrew, a deep alienation from mundane reality and passionate longing to return to the spiritual realm.
"You reach a point in time when enough is enough," Mr. Schoolman said.
"Why should someone support a government-funded corporation that operates as inefficiently as the M.T.A.?" In February 2009, Mr. Schoolman bought the struggling Hampton Luxury Liner and refurbished the fleet with DirecTV and wireless Internet service.
Mr. Schoolman set up a Web site -- mtataxpayerabuse.com -- which he said had received "tons and tons" of response.
Of course, as a taxpayer, hasn't Mr. Schoolman been subsidizing these railroads for years?
"Competition," Mr. Schoolman said in a recent telephone interview, anger rising in his voice.
"The stakes are very high for both sides," Mr. Schoolman said.
Mr. Schoolman conducts research in environmental and political sociology at the University of Michigan, where he is a Graham Fellow.
MARIA JOSEPHY SCHOOLMAN Washington, Oct. 2, 2013.
