Word: buckleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free America and to enlightened human thought and action, let him be treated as Harvard now treats let us say an avowed Communist or an anti-Semite (both exercising freedom of thought)--let him be dispatched on his way to an educational institution that is more liberal. William F. Buckley, Jr., Chairman, Yale Daily News...
...editorial said: "Mr. Buckley's broadcast is running as a "Crime" because it manages to advocate, in a compact 15 minutes, most of the bad things that could happen to American education. . . It calmly calls for student indoctrination, one-sided curricula, and alumni regulation of what a University may teach...
...Buckley denies that these measures would abrogate academic freedom. He says that "nowhere do I hint at an orthodoxy that should trammel the thinking of any faculty member who has a basic respect for Christianity and a free economy." There is where Buckley's "logically impregnable" position falls. For Buckley's conception of the basic nature of a "free economy" is just as much an orthodoxy as a party-line adherence to Communism. Adherence to Buckley's orthodoxy can trammel thinking quite as effectively as the "forces of socialism and atheism" which Buckley feared in his broadcast...
SLATER: Thank you, Bill Buckley, Friends, whether you are a student, a teacher, a parent, or a university trustee, you will want to read and think about what you've just heard, so please stay tuned in. . . Friends, our guest, William Frank Buckley, Jr., member of the Yale University debating team that bowled over Oxford on Socialism, has certainly given the rest of us something to think about--about the responsibilities of university and college trustees for purposeless policies in education. For free printed copies of this interview just drop a postcard to AMERICA'S FUTURE in care...
...BUCKLEY: The administrators of the University can be given the task of carrying it out. Then there will be some definite purpose in education. And in return, the University should tell the alumni that if they are sincerely interested in the mission of the University, the staggering coast of such a mission must be met, and theirs is the duty to provide for this cost. Alumni have given evidence of their generously time and time again. And, in my opinion, contributions would be increased tenfold if parents believed that students were being encouraged to align themselves against the forces...