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...much to hope that more men like Carnegie Foundation President Carmichael will step forward categorically on the side of truth to expose this generation's educators and fellow travelers for the brood of nihilistic vipers that they are ? One would almost believe so, when pondering the inane and pious cant that appears as the profound soul-searching of the majority of contributors to Edward R. Murrow's This I Believe series...
...line set up the first scoring play for U.C.L.A.'s Bruins: a 22-yd. field goal. But early in the second period Sears put his team back into the lead with an impromptu play that brought the crowd roaring to its feet. Running interference for teammate Al Carmichael, Sears saw his teammate stopped after a ten-yard gain, yelled for a lateral, gathered the toss in and outraced the off-balance Bruins on a 60-yd. touchdown jaunt...
Taking the direct pass from center, he stepped back, his arm cocked to pass. Then, tucking the ball under his arm, he faked a plunge toward the goal line. At the last moment, just as the converging Bruin linemen had him hemmed in, Sears lobbed a floater to Halfback Carmichael for the winning touchdown. Final score, after the teams had battled around midfield in foggy, floodlit gloom through the last quarter: Sears & Co. 14, U.C.L.A...
When U.S. educators recite their favorite injunction, "Know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," what sort of truth do they mean? Last week, in his annual report to the Carnegie Foundation, President Oliver C. (for Cromwell) Carmichael, ex-Chancellor of Vanderbilt University and long a ranking U.S. educator himself, gives his own blistering answer to the question. In the course of his answer, he flatly accuses his fellow educators of too often confusing truth with a collection of undigested facts...
...short, says Dr. Carmichael, higher learning has fallen for "the cult of objectivity, [which] has resulted in a generation of irresponsible intellectuals, of men without convictions. As a warning, Germany is cited. There scientific learning reached its peak . . . Yet it was also there that the leadership . . . was unable to resist a fanatic who led the nation to a ruin more tragic . . . than that suffered by any other in modern history...