Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Referring to Dr. Butler's pronouncement as "astonishing" and a "frontal attack on the liberties of students and scholars in a free country," the HSU held this "thorough perversion of the phrase 'academic freedom'" to be "one more clear indication that many of our senior partners in the academic world have, through their subservience to the war drive, abdicated their position of leadership in America...
...statement of American Defense, Harvard Group, in response to President Butler's statement at Columbia, follows...
Before an unprecedented meeting of the Columbia faculties on Thursday, President Nicholas Murray Butler announced that his university is at war with Germany. That was not a startling revelation; most of his audience know it already. What he did not state in so many words, but what his address unmistakably said, was that non-interventionists are no longer wanted on the Columbia faculty...
...university," Dr. Butler began, "has become with the passing years a powerful public servant in the field of liberty." But his next words were to belie that statement. Once again, as he had in 1918, Dr. Butler was sounding the death knell of academic freedom at Columbia. "Before and above academic freedom of any kind or sort comes the right and obligation of the university itself to pursue its high ideals unhampered and unembarrassed by conduct on the part of any of its members which tends to damage its reputation, to lessen its influence or to lower its authority...
Under the shallow camouflage of national defense, fascism now comes to Morningside Heights. Not the open brutal kind made famous by Adolf Hitler, but fascism nonetheless. Herr Hitler says that those who do not conduct themselves for the advancement of National Socialism will be exterminate. Dr. Butler phrases it somewhat more subtly (perhaps that is the advantage of a college education): "Those whose convictions are of such a character as to bring their conduct in open conflict with the University's freedom to go its way towards its lofty aim should . . . withdraw...