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Albert B. Levin--Kirkland House; Student Council, Vice-President-President; P.B.H. Social Service Committee; Phi Beta Kappa; Signet Society; Junior Usher; Kirk-Comm...
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...
...Kirk, on the other hand, maintained that there has been more toleration in times of certitude, more liberty when certain principles have been widely accepted. He felt that uncertainty and a clashing of views led to persecution...
...Kirk also said that men of conviction, men courageous enough to express their views, will be needed to combat the "very real danger of the degradation of the democratic dogma." He further criticized the tendency of the student in becoming a mere "passive recipient of canned knowledge...