Word: dollard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week President Charles Dollard of the $178 million Carnegie Corporation of New York obliged with a statement that was a basic lesson on the spirit of free inquiry...
...human existence and more capable of realizing them . . ." It is true that a foundation must exercise careful judgment in selecting the studies and scholars it wishes to support. But having done so, it must treat the doctrine of the free enterprise of ideas as inviolate. In its 43 years, Dollard continued, the Carnegie Corporation (which has spent $253 million to improve public libraries, educational standards, etc.) has never wavered from that principle. "It is extremely important for the American tradition of free inquiry that this principle of non-interference be maintained," wrote Dollard. "At the same time, it must...
Suggested Caution. Indeed, said Dollard, the Congress itself would do well to follow the foundations' lead. "Just as the foundations must be extremely scrupulous, so also must be the Government in not telling the scholar what to think . . . We must be exceedingly careful not to formulate the doctrine that . . . tax exemption permits either the executive or the legislative branch of the Government to control the thinking of [our] institutions...