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...students came from 175 different universities, and for the first time in many years a majority of the faculty was made up of regular Harvard staff members, such as Charles R. Cherington '35, associate professor of Government, and Oscar Handlin, associate professor of History...
...students came from 175 different universities, and for the first time in many years a majority of the faculty was made up of regular Harvard staff members, such as Charles R. Cherington '35, associate professor of Government, and Oscar Handlin, associate professor of History...
...from The Dartmouth and accompanying editorial. However, I must take issue with your feeble reply. While it is useless to attempt to "blame" anyone for this current trend in American thinking, the colleges certainly bring no credit on themselves by submitting to the trend without a protest. As Professor Handlin pointed out in his Atlantic Monthly article, the youth of this country has formed the core of every progressive movement, and it is a discouraging symptom when we submit so readily to the complacency of our elders. A few voices in protest--though they have no immediate effect--are still...
...this Dartmouth editorial does bring up some problems that are not peculiar to the north woods. The emphasis on security rather than initiative disturbed Professor Handlin of Harvard's History department so much that he wrote a magazine article on it last month. The preference for safe plodding rather than expression of unpopular opinions has unfortunately gone far beyond the college stage and is currently plaguing everyone from President Truman down. And alumni reunions have become the focus of college thought in many cases because alumni often have money and most colleges badly need money today...
...present younger generation. The "tragic divorce of youth from liberalism" is another sign of this tendency. Whereas years ago, Washington looked carefully at the ideas of youth, today "Washington would be as little inclined to regard the ideas of youth as youth is to look for ideas in Washington," Handlin says...