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...Despite the fears of men of little faith, the Class of '49, and the Classes of '45 and '50, have proved that we can make our ideal of broadened opportunity work in the nation's colleges and universities. . . . To the classes of the future, we owe the assurance that the experiment will be continued...
...Whether Laski is a Communist or a Socialist or not, he is still an outstanding figure," said Brown yesterday. "Many people want to hear Laski," Brown continued, "and we owe it to them to bring him here...
...more important for the U.S. to keep a foothold in Western Europe than in Japan. Japan is not a very good place from which to do strategic bombing of possible Russian targets. The U.S. does not owe the Japanese anything. The U.S. had the right, and duty, to disarm them after the war, even though someone else might later cut their throats...
...life. In a long, grande dame letter to "Dearest Franklin and Dearest Eleanor" she wrote: "The foolish old saying 'noblesse oblige' is good and 'honneur oblige' possibly expresses it better for most of us. One can be as democratic as one likes, but... we owe a great example." She sorrowed over "the trend to 'shirt sleeves...
...community, and in men of learning everywhere, so profound a revulsion that I cannot pass it in silence. That has to do with the evaluation of Einstein, and of his place in science, which no time, no age, and no frivolity can alter, and of the debt that we owe, and that all who follow us will owe, to him. It would seem that the issue goes beyond that of good taste, that it touches on an appreciation of the timeless nature of truth, without which the life of the mind can have no meaning, and without which the very...