Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nine of the 16 selections in Professor Jones' anthology are distinguished expositions of the concept of freedom of inquiry as not forth by diverse persons and institutions from 1605 (Francis Bacon on "The Advancement of Learning") to 1915 (The University of Wisconsin's message on a bronze tablet.) But the remaining seven articles--also vigorous statements of this crucial freedom--cover only the last three decades...
This chronological bunching is highly significant. It, of itself, suggests two historical developments: First, that the fears and suspicions which followed the two World Wars have offered the most intense and sustained challenges to intellectual freedom that the nation has suffered. Second, that educators have become increasingly articulate on this subject...
Jones' most important contribution to the argument for intellectual freedom is a long-needed clarification of the "confusion between the verb 'to teach' and the verb 'to indoctrinate,'" a confusion which made worse recent Massachusetts anti-Communist legislation...
Seventeen songs and a frolicking chorus line pave the way for the eventual triumph of dramatic freedom over censorship in the lusty musical conceived by William S. Wheeling '50 and Russel A. Ames...
...much in favor of freedom of speech as anybody, but there is something to the clear and present danger concept. Someday somebody's going to pull a muscle trying to get out of Emerson. The windows of Emerson are too high to afford another entrance, and the University has not seen fit to open the other half of the doors. It's up to the student in the street to solve this problem...