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Reverberating Questions. Though Buckley lists only five professors (out of a faculty of 1,100) as atheists or agnostics, and only five as clearly anticapitalist, he quotes an impressive number of classroom and textbook examples to support his charges. And he raises some reverberating questions. What is the moral responsibility of an American university? Has it any? Should a university have convictions-or no convictions? Should it be neutral against all religion? Or encourage Christianity as the most-favored faith? Or what...
Another department, the Winter Sports, is currently praying for snow, which is late this year, so it can take to the ski trails and show neophytes the techniques it has been demonstrating all fall in the classroom...
...idea was to give a classroom approach to the ticklish subject of international affairs, and tie this in with courses already taught at Dartmouth. Either the New York Times or Herald Tribune is required daily reading. Visiting lecturers make up the bulk of the course, and such men as Harvard's I.A. Richards, Crane Brinton, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. trek New Hampshirewards each year to help prepare the Dartmouth senior for the world outside...
...course itself, required of all seniors, tries to give a classroom approach to newsroom techniques. Part of it concerns itself with teaching students how to read and compare newspapers. Because of its range, the course has sometimes been called radical, but no attempt to erase it from the curriculum has yet been made...
...research organization with funds and to assert simultaneously what will come out of the investigations for which the funds are to be used. For obviously under such a formula, there is no reason for investigation to be undertaken at all." What Buckley terribly forgets is that the classroom is just as much a research organization as the Sterling Library, that earmarking Alumni money so that students can get only selected pre-decided "truths" from the lecture platform is no different from paying a research organization to find selected, pre-decided facts. He says to tell a researcher what his answers...