Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nestled in the scenic Palmer Lake mountain district of Colorado is perhaps the most unusual school in the United States. The Freedom School and its high priest, Robert LeFevre, stand lonely and outspoken as the voice of the doctrine of complete personal freedom...
Brooking severest criticism, Lowell adamantly refused to remove Laski. "Knowledge can advance... only by means of an unfettered search for truth on the part of those who devote their lives to seeking it...," he said "and by complete freedom in imparting... the truth that they have found. Either the University assumes full responsibility for permitting its professors to express certain opinions in public, or it assumes no responsibility whatsoever, and leaves them to be dealt with like other citizens by the public authorities." The University steered always by the latter course under President Lowell and consequently left its faculty free...
...times this position seemed risky; often it was nearly untenable. But Lowell always maintained it, and especially so after 1919 when he published his now-classic interpretation of academic freedom. In the middle of the Boston police strike of that year, Harold J. Laski, a young government instructor at the University, became somewhat carried away with his own enthusiasm in addressing the striking policemen's wives. Exuberantly, Laski praised the uprising as an example of pluralistic liberty in the finest tradition...
Upholds Academic Freedom...
...campaign really was over. His "war with academic tradition" had been in large part won. The academic reforms he demanded in his inaugural had become realities, the Houses he envisioned had been built, and the academic freedom he championed had been established. Whether he had changed student attitude or the character of student society as much as he liked to believe is debatable; that he had changed the face of Harvard...