Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russell Kirk, in a debate last night, said he would exclude atheists and agnostics from faculty positions, believing that the essence of truth springs from a belief in a Divine Being, and one who does not believe is essentially anti-intellectual...
Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, espousing the liberal view on the topic "Academic Freedom: The Idea and Reality," said that Kirk, by failing to define such broad terms as "natural law," "religion," and "truth" in his book, "simply used large and essentially meaningless words" to support his views on academic freedom...
...Howe asserted, Kirk's position is clear and intolerable. "We have passed from Edmund Burke to Trigger Burke," he said...
...debate tonight sponsored by the Student Council, Mark DeWolfe Howe, professor of Law, and Dr. Russell Kirk will discuss the topic, "Academic Freedom: The Idea and the Reality." The meeting at 8 p.m. in New Lecture Hall, is free and open to the public...
...Kirk is author of the book, "The Conservative Mind...