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Loyalty to the concept of academic freedom has restrained the University, as a corporate body, from taking political stands on issues outside its field of direct concern. When the question was the Red Scare of the twenties or McCarthyism in the fifties, liberal opinion remained undivided. All agreed that the University should not censure its members for their views; it must remain a forum for ideas, not a judge of political rectitude...
...this committee understands the matter, the concept of a liberal arts college involves two central elements. The first has to do with the development in the student of a special competence and a sense of mastery over some particular area and method of knowledge. Such mastery is not, in the specific context of the liberal arts college, intended solely or even primarily as preprofessional training...
Thimann, the first Head appointed under the Radcliffe House system, originated the concept of Judicial Boards to supplant the Board of Hall Presidents. The scheme, he said last night, was formed out of his desire "to provide bridges between staff and students...
...courageous and valiant attorney in your picture with the Murray family is Leonard Kerpelman of Baltimore. He is an orthodox and conservative member of the Jewish community who is devoted to the concept of separation of church and state-as any American should...
Edward Prince of Wales grew up to be neither perfect nor anything like the Prince Consort, as Victoria learned to her dismay. But in one sense, argues British Biographer Philip Magnus, he was indeed the perfect man: he-fulfilled Britain's concept of itself as neither Victoria nor Prince Albert had ever done. If he was an anachronism, so was the Britain in which he grew up and ruled. The secret of his easy popularity, thinks Author Magnus, was that he scarcely ever betrayed by word or deed what some of his countrymen dimly suspected: the fact that...