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...there appear to be much chance that, whatever others may hope, college students and professors will leave the world of active politics and return to their ivory towers. "In much of Washington, I should judge, this university involvement is regarded, perhaps rather hopefully, as a passing phase," John Kenneth Galbraith told a commencement audience at the University of Michigan last month. Galbraith himself took a different viewpoint: "Universities and colleges will be an increasingly powerful force in our public life. The question is not one of neutrality, but how they will participate...
...Galbraith pointed to the increasing size of universities -- by 1970, 6,700,000 students will be taught by 480,000 teachers -- and said he thought it impossible for so large a group to exercise no power. He suggested that universities will continue to be principally concerned with foreign policy, and that the effect of this will be "altogether healthy...
...almost the same time Galbraith spoke, Walter Lippman '10 was making some of the same points in a speech in California. Modern man, he said, has been emancipated from traditional authority and is now looking for some reservoir of wisdom and truth from which he can draw. Lippman suggested that the universities will ultimately take on this role, even in areas of public policy...
...Galbraith argued in the same speech that not all academics have learned how to serve the political ideas they have adopted...
Richard M. Nixon, in Cambridge to hire Law students, says that "the Vietnam war is going better for the United States." John Kenneth Galbraith, H. Stuart Hughes, and Mark DeWolfe Howe defend students' right to protest, and there are an antiwar rally in the Yard and an antiwar march to the Boston Common. Graduate students and undergraduates who were 2-S are reclassified...