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...liberal community was characterized by more than just qualities of academic freedom. Handlin said. In addition, "there was a communal organization that allowed a lot of people to do their own thing," he said...
...Rise and fall of the Liberal University" was the topic of Handlin's lecture, the last in a series on the history of Harvard given by members of the Faculty...
...Handlin said that up until the 1969 disruption, the "silken threads" of self-restraint and mutually accepted conceptions of the value of education for its own sake held the structure of the University together...
...Handlin said the structure stretched under the pressures of a larger and more diverse academic community, "the expansion of knowledge and the knowledge industry," and vast injections of government money into the University "for reasons not relating to the advancement of academic pursuits...
...structure finally "exploded under the pressure of crisis" in 1969, Handlin said...