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...principal speaker, Professor Elliott, spoke as an "educational layman". He had two basic assumptions--American teachers are seekers after objective truth, and the function of American education is to perpetuate our democratic ideals. Both these assumptions can be readily granted. But from there on this theory treads on dangerous ground. According to it, since objective truth lies clearly on the Allied side, no teacher can be intellectually neutral. The best course for American education, then, is to preach the Allied cause...
...Greene must certainly be surprised by the repercussions attending his refusal to grant a hall for a Browder meeting--from a "question of taste" it has become a "question of civil liberties." If the purpose of his action was not to deny free speech, it has, nevertheless, that very function, and in the present time when there is a general hounding of unorthodox, political groups, anything which might signify a restriction of free speech, a surrender to Mr. Dies' blackmailing, is to be carefully avoided. Mr. Greene's legitimate protest to the "New York Times" on its handling...
Labor and Democracy is nevertheless a true mirror of William Green-a plain work by a plain man. "Those of us who have grown up in the labor movement," he observes, "know that its real strength and function is not as an army with banners flying, enlisted for a crusade, but as groups of workers interested in having a job and in doing a good day's work...
Since this is the sociology department's first attempt at staging this function, it is necessarily experimental, Zimmerman declared. If the results are unsatisfactory it is highly probable that the college will decline to do it again if asked...
...areas of combat from which our ships are to be excluded, and declare what countries are belligerents. The remaining details fall in the province of the State Department. it is right that these duties should be placed in the Executive branch of the government, for that is its function. However, the record of this, branch during the past few months indicates that it will bear close watching...