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WILD MEN LOSE CONTROL OF LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS! What the Recorder and other London papers went on to tell their readers: the stormy London School of Economics had just appointed a new man to the chair of political science, last occupied by the late leftist, owlishly intellectual Harold Laski. And by any standard Laski's successor was no wild...
...remember him as a quiet, dry, sometimes boring lecturer, devoted to his subject, who inspired classes only by his meticulous sincerity. Later, other young reformers followed: Philip Noel-Baker, now Labor's Minister of Fuel and Power; onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton; and in 1926, Harold Laski...
...Diabolically Clever." For 23 years Laski seemed to overshadow everyone else at L.S.E., became in the public mind almost a synonym for the school. "My life," he once cried, "is my students!" and some of his students never forgot what he said (in the 1945 election, 67 of them were elected Labor M.P.s). A brilliant man who could read 200 pages in an hour ("diabolically clever and omniscient," said Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes), he was also a spectacular lecturer. Sometimes gesturing excitedly and sometimes staring motionless at his palm, he spoke "with a force and conviction," recalls one student, "that...
When in the next year the trustees set out to elect a president of the University, Einstein supported Harold Laski, professor at the London School of Economics. But the board desired an American educator and Einstein, displeased, dropped his name from the list of the school's supporters. In 1948 the Board elected Sachar as president of Brandeis. Then retired, Sachar had been an important educator--a recipient of Cambridge University's first Ph.D. degree--and for 14 years the head of Hillel Foundations...
Conservative in investment, educational, and political matters, the Corporation through the years has stood out consistently in favor of academic freedom. Public pressure against men like Harold Laski and Charles Eliot Norton has been great, but the Corporation has backed the idea of free expression and inquiry...