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...Reasonable discussion" is the ideal way for officials to collaborate. But Banfield posed this question: "How do you govern a body in which everybody is honest, principled, and of different opinions." His solution is to "choose the least among evils" which lies somewhere between centralization and bribery. Our city officials do engage in "reasonable discussion." Expediency, however, apparently takes precedence over complete honesty...
...with her greatness, in my judgment, than any other aspect of her constitutional tradition except the freedom of her faculty, her students and her wayward press. The Corporation and the Administration may be right or wrong, but they can never be irresponsible. No other final judgement than theirs must govern the distribution of unrestricted funds, and one element in this judgment must always be the availability of other money. The basic Harvard document on this point fittingly bears the signature of the late Learned Hand...
...feeling here is that only by standing firm on this point can we and other American colleges make clear our determined opposition to legislation in which there is implied an infringement of an ancient freedom--the freedom of universities to govern themselves," said Pusey...
...reasonable degree of consistent law and order-government which can govern. Without a degree of continuity in political life, consistent economic growth is not possible...
Either we must have a war against Russia before she has the atom, and win it, or lie down and say, "Come and govern...