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With the smooth logic of a debater, Buckley states his case: 1) Yale's teaching shows no attempt to inculcate students with the twin values of Christianity and individualism; 2) Yale alumni are overwhelmingly Christian and individualist; 3) Therefore these alumni should hold off contributing to their alma mater until it sets itself right. What Yale has to do, says Buckley, is to adopt a "value orthodoxy," a rigorous system of classroom and extra-curricular indoctrination plugging his and the alumnus' views. How, asks Buckley, can alumni get their money's worth when the old school isn't teaching what...
...Buckley will return to his aims mater. The News is going to sponsor a debate between Buckley and a man who will review God and Man at Yale in a coming issue of "The Atlantic Monthly." William Buckley may be termed a her etic, a fascist, a muddled individualist or what have you. His book may accomplish nothing, but if his book does any thing, it will probably reinforce the tenents of academic freedom...
...Thus," says Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morrison '08, "a Yale man became the greatest benefactor to Harvard in our entire history, making a noble return for the part that Harvard men had taken in founding his alma mater." Three years after Harvard's House system was in operation, Yale, had its College system, also as a result of a gift from Harkness...
William Frank Buckley, Jr., 1950 chairman of the Yale Daily News and outspoken advocate of restrictions on academic freedom, will charge that Yale is on the way to "agnosticism and collectiveism" in a book to be published October 15 by Henry Regnery, Chicago publisher. Buckley accuses his alma mater of fostering the two creeds "under the protective label 'academic freedom...
Harvard Law School, alma mater of such a variety of men as Holmes, Brandeis. Lillenthal and Senator Taft, has the biggest name in the business. Famed for the development of the case method under Langdell, the first dean, and once Infamous for its now abandoned policy of flunking one-third of each first-year class, the school has stuck to its principles of rigor and tough mental discipline in the study...