Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lost in the spell of decay, few members of the fantastically inbred faculty will fight the system. For they remember one who did. Lewis K. McMillan, exprofessor of History, was fired for writing a book, "Negro Higher Education in the State of South Carolina," which exposed the system for what...
...tenure system in the "glorified high schools" that are the average deep-South Negro college. For tenure would violate the classical Southern tradition of denying the Negro the right to question white authority. A corollary to this principle is the institution of the Publication of this book, "Negro Higher Education in the State of South Carolina," brought down the wrath of a college president and caused the firing of its author, Lewis McMillan, a professor of History. The book, a documentary study of educational opportunities in the South, was published at McMillan's own expense...
Under the philosophy upon which this nation was founded, a great educational system has developed and flourished. At its apex is the realm of higher education where the responsibility for furthering the routes of truth and knowledge rests more heavily than in any other area, of the educational system. In the realm of higher education the American right to question, to explore, to express, to examine and re-examine, is of necessity exercised continually. Were it not so, our diverse intellectual resources would become stagnant...
...decided whether. . . one should be silent about the communist movement, give it the protection of retrospective secrecy. I decided that it should not have this protection, that public candor about the relations of past and present best served the interests of democracy and of higher education," Davis says of his agonizing decision to inform...
...Viscount has proved an economical operator over medium-distance routes such as Capital has from New York and Washington to the Midwest. On European routes its vibration-free performance and relative silence have lured many a traveler from piston-engine planes. While operating cost per hour will be slightly higher than for Capital's DC-4s, the actual cost per seat-mile will be less owing to the Viscount's 115-m.p.h. greater speed. Sample new schedule: 1 hr. 31 min. between Cleveland and New York compared to the present 1 hr. 50 min. run. Says Carmichael...