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...been secured or preserved by submission to tyranny; constitutional rights are never above the level of those who receive their protection. The imprisonment of countless Puritans gave rise to the constitutional right not to be a witness against oneself. Many editors went to prison during the period of the Alien and Sedition's Laws, thereby establishing more firmly the freedom of the press. The abolitionists who stood up to statute, decision and administrative and mob action are responsible in great part for the ultimate end of slavery. In the present instance, the academic community has a special duty to resist...
...Cornelius B. Philip of the U.S. Public Health Service has spent a lifetime studying ticks. Like many a biologist who has an intimate understanding of an alien species, Dr. Philip seems to sympathize with his little associates. Ticks are neither beautiful nor intelligent, he reports in Scientific Monthly, but they have a rugged persistence which Dr. Philip admires...
...still strong, because it not only gives an assured deferment, but also offers the bonus of a commission upon graduation. All agree that a liberal arts college has a duty to turn out leaders in times of military emergency. But it need not make military technical training--so alien to its nature--especially attractive by giving it a heaping share of academic credit. Harvard provides students the opportunity for office training; it has no duty to entice than into the program at the expense o the liberal arts...
...Congress.'' he wrote, "that U.S. policy seeks as one of its peaceful goals the eventual restoration of genuine independence in the nations . . . now dominated by Moscow, and that we will not be a party to any 'deal' confirming the rule of Soviet despotism over the alien peoples which it now dominates...
...extent of his freedom to interpret events in his own special area. If his policy reports cannot disagree with a "declared and established" course, his freedom is as limited as that of his colleagues in the Russian foreign service. Although such a concept of guilt by disagreement is alien to all Western diplomacy, the circumstances of the Vincent case has given the idea credence at once a symptom of the debility of State's morale and a cause of further demoralization...