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John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, has been told that President Johnson will "make some representation" in behalf of Andreas Papandreou, son of the former Premier of Greece, who has been imprisoned by the ruling military junta of Greece...
Administrative boards, once needed to protect "impractical" scholars from the "complex tasks of the real world," now serve only as conduits of political interference into universities, Galbraith said...
...modern faculty that the national government and the larger corporation turn when faced with a problem," Galbraith declared...
...Galbraith also said that the modern university failed to recognize its own economic significance and power. Just "as capital, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, was decisive for economic success, so now the supply of qualified manpower is decisive for economic success," he said...
...Galbraith also said that universities must give freedom even to those who would destroy it or assert "damaging nonsense." But he stressed that Universities must recognize their personal responsibility to counter such ideas...