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...assembling of professors, students and buildings does not produce educated men; but in recent years the College has shown a tendency to rely on spontaneous interaction and to drift along on old formulas, making only those repairs which are absolutely necessary. The College's prime concern in its own judgement, is the "liberal education of undergraduates," but it fails to stand behind its rhetoric. The Doty Committee, for instance, which should be studying the concept, worth and substance of general education as well as its techniques, seems to be concentrating on ways to renovate a program--not a college...
Needless to say, my admiration and respect for the qualities of Harvard's judgement were diminished by your allowing him to speak. Had Harvard allowed Wallace to speak only in an ordered debate of some kind, the college could have set a lasting precedent for the rights...
...acceptable and exciting duty.... A university has also to provide the many, many kinds of professional education of which our society now stands so hungrily in need. Again, we may say, of course... but this was not what first called the university into existence, nor can it in my judgement ever safely be thought to provide the sum or substance of its aim.... A university was, and is, first of all an association of scholars. It is their essential function not to produce goods or perform practical services, but simply to keep a life of the mind vigorous and functioning...
Erhard's economic policies are quite popular in Germany. The Germans have no emotional enthusiasm for the idea of the Common Market, but they trust Erhard's economic judgement completely. Since 1948, Erhard has had a Midas touch with the German economy, and the people see no reason to think he isn't right this time...
...States popularity seems to be rising. Galbraith specifically noted the change which has occurred in the intellectual's attitude toward the United States. "Ten years ago the universities were quite hostile to us," but they now evidence a much friendlier and more understanding attitude. Galbraith cautioned, however, that his judgement was based primarily on the universities' reaction to him as ambassador. "I was helped by the fact that I wasn't closely identified with the right-wing, free enterprise theory of economics," he explained...