Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Received the British Ambassador, Lord Lothian; Sir Walter Layton, editor, London Economist; Nevile Butler, Embassy counselor-who came to say "Britain needs more of everything, and quickly...
...Butler has the crust to maintain that the Columbia faculty is still free. As every Nazi is free to agree with the official dicta, so every Columbia teacher is now free to follow the University in its "lofty...
...Butler's definition of a university is indefensible. He likens it to a church in which "no reasonable person would insist upon remaining" if he did not agree wholeheartedly with its principles and doctrines. But a university is not a church. The purpose of a church is to teach absolute and revealed truths; the purpose of a university is to search for truths that are as yet unrevealed...
...Butler seems to conceive of a university as its president, a few deans, and the corporation. Obviously it is far more than that. And the opinions of faculty and students alike should be sought after rather than crushed. Yet for "accomplished scholars" alone, Dr. Butler reserves the right to academic freedom; for himself, he reserves the right to name them...
...quote from President Butler's own report for 1926-27, "The scholar who in sincerity and knowledge criticizes or dissents from some well-established institution, idea or practice . . . is as much entitled to that dissent as his fellow who defends what this scholar condemns. This is one of the hardest lessons for public opinion in a democracy to learn. The persecuting instinct is so deep and so widespread and the passion for uniformity and conformity is so strong that many a missile will continue to be leveled at the devoted head of any scholar who dissents from a prevailing...