But this only seems to say persons and communities make choices about how they wish to participate intellectually in tradition in which they inhabit. Howard University, the first historically-black college had only been open 65 years when the last work for the 1952 set had been written. Further, Great books curriculum extends much further than the selection set of one, although one formerly-famous, series of books, and the Great Ideas were not really canonical; rather, the books were, the Great Ideas being invented as concept clusters to identify broad areas of common study down through the ages, though in very many cases slow to conclude, if having yet at all, and often with interruptions, hesitations and reversals.