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...Abram L. Sachar, who accepted the speaking date after Mrs. Roosevelt died last November, said "there is no commitment I have wanted less to fulfill." He proceeded to give what he termed "a memorial salute--not a controversial address in the usual Forum tradition, but a salute to give permanence to her years...
...Sachar said Mrs. Roosevelt's death "loosed a display of grief such as this nation has never known; everyone who was asked for a comment spoke as if a member of the family had been removed...
...years created a major U.S. campus in Waltham, Mass. Now it needs a war chest to lure top scholars, notably in its weak departments of economics, philosophy, comparative languages. The library of 300,000 volumes needs strengthening, as does research in humanities. The new grant, says President Abram Sachar. "does for our economic stability what Phi Beta Kappa accreditation did for our academic stature...
Nonetheless, says Sachar, "it is the responsibility of this school to make kids show the credentials for their assumptions." The same goes for religion: "Here at Brandeis you must not only prove an affirmative conviction but also a rejection." To keep religious debate alive. Sachar has continually plunged into "our intellectual Gulf Stream" such diverse theologians as Martin Buber, Jacques Maritain and Paul Tillich...
...dissent. In the 21-campus Boston area, it often seems that every peace march or civil rights rally is led by Brandeis students. The student paper, The Justice, is perhaps the most caustically anti-administration campus newspaper in the country. "It's hard not to censor them," sighs Sachar. "But we don't want to run the risk of closing their minds. We practice an affectionate kind of fratricide." What Brandeis has in fact produced is a mirror of the liberal, learned, humane tone of Justice Brandeis himself. For just this reason, it is likely...