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...faith in freedom of thought has had broader implications. It is the dominating concept behind the General Education Report, and it has provided the necessary amunition to withstand the continued onslaughts against the very concept of academic freedom and the liberal University...
...definition is an oversimplification. As second in command of the College, his duties enmesh him in such non-academic matters as setting the Faculty's financial budget, scrutinizing athletic policy, and formulating admissions procedures. Even outside the academic world, he is consistent in his concept that the best policy provides equal facilities for all and permits the individual to have as much latitude and free will as possible. Thus he has been an earnest supporter of the intra-mural "athletics-for-all" plan despite the fact that it aids in plunging the Athletic Association deep in the red each year...
When Buck took over as Provost he had formulated a three-legged concept of Harvard education. "First there is concentration. It is to know something about something. Then there is distribution. Finally there is the concept of total life, brought out in the House system and extracurricular activities...
...world, its movie censors almost ban the depiction of sin from the screen: "The notion, for instance, that sin is always, and very precisely, punished in this life would not appear to be Catholic dogma; yet it is at Catholic insistence that the screen echoes and re-echoes the concept...
...this appropriate outrage should not obscure the multitude of honest editors and reporters, nor, especially, the problem they face. There is the vexing question of objectivity, a difficult quality to define and almost impossible to attain. Various periodicals, notably the Reporter, claim that the current concept of objectivity is simply a comfortable illusion. They say reporters should add a measure of interpretation and analysis to news stories...