Word: morals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plays up British power and determination. Berlin pictures not so much German strength as English perfidy and weakness, makes a great point of moral issues of war guilt and war aims. One of the tabulations of the Princeton Centre suggests that an uncritical American listener, accepting all British and German statements at their face values, might easily decide Britain was morally wrong, but would win the war anyway...
...departments were having a gay time dissecting the period from 1914 to 1917 to show how this country was bamboozled into fighting to make the world safe for democracy. There is now, I believe, some dissatisfaction among those very same teachers that students are not sensitive to the great moral issues involved in the present conflict. Isn't it possible that undergraduates have a better memory than professors? that these same professors are suffering from having taught too well...
...duty not the maintenance of an open forum for everybody with eccentric ideas. This is a propagandistic function and those who wish to indoctrinate special issues should hire a hall. Harvard has a higher purpose: to lead its students, by a consideration of unbiased thoughts presented by men of moral integrity, to make up their minds on controversial issues. This is the educational function...
Bertrand Russell is a propagandist. This is freely testified in all his writings and naive expressions of scientific rationalism. That he is of low moral integrity is amply demonstrated...
...speech again and again. By appointing men, who have aroused general public resentment, to teach, Harvard can only encourage scholars to hide behind the free speech cry rather than to stand on their merits as good citizens when seeking appointment. To appoint Russell is to put a premium on moral eccentricity rather than scholarship. There are many able men, fully as able as Russell and much less biased, who could give these lectures. To appoint Russell under these conditions is to hire an ax-grinder and lose an educator. Howard L. Beer...