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In his Presidential Address delivered at The College Language Association's Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference at Hampton Institute in Hampton VA on Apr 2, 1964, Turner calls for a re-examination of the humanities. His interrogation of a faculty's role in the decline of the prestige of the humanities following Sputnik I and the ensuing claims of the impracticality of the study of languages and literatures reminds that there has always been and may always be a "crisis in the humanities," that there will always be an obsession with "the new" that makes traditional literary study seem passé, and that the non-practitioner or vocational driven disciplines will constantly be under assault. More important than his foreshadowing of the current humanities crisis conversations, however, is his charting of how humanities faculty must respond to the crisis to be the guardians of cultural heritages.