Word: protection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is only one way to assure a solution of the problem. University administrators, from assistant deans and department chairmen up through university presidents, must be prepared to show the greatest integrity and personal courage to protect the freedom of their teachers. President James Phinney Baxter of Williams is exemplary among current administrators: he has withstood extreme alumni pressure in protecting a teacher's right at the height of a crucial drive for endowment--the weakest spot of a private school today...
...ideas and new theories. It must always, therefore, be radical in the eyes of some. The ideas may turn out to be faulty; but this must not be made a basis for preventing their full investigation. A university can afford to remove itself from our social fabric to protect those who search in any manner for the truth in any form. It must do so to justify its existence, for a school which lacks freedom to inquire into the nature of truth does not deserve the title of university...
During the Second World War, Munch faced the same problems which confronted all musicians in occupied countries, and came up with what many people consider the most intelligent solution. To protect the members of his orchestra, he was obliged to continue conducting and thus keep a foreign conductor out. He defended his musicians from possible capture by the Germans on political grounds, and did not allow investigations of religious or racial backgrounds. At first he refused to conduct before Nazi audiences at all, but when obliged to go so, he accepted his fees and turned them over to the Resistance...
...ordinance is not designed to prevent a parking lot or garage owner from getting a reasonable return on his investment, but neither is it designed to protect gougers," DeGuglielmo said...
...Army of World War I, Pratt picks Charles P. Summerall, another artilleryman who rose to be a corps commander. Unlike his big-gun colleagues who advocated steamroller barrages, Summerall believed in pinpoint targets, but what endears him most to Pratt is his flat belief that "artillery exists only to protect and support infantry...