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...tower of impartial journalism on Plympton St generally stands straight. But "Political Controversies at Harvard, 1636-1974" by Seymour Martin Lipset in "Education and Politics at Harvard," provoked a full page review by Geoffrey Garin on April 12 titled "Fair Harvard Strikes Back...
...Garin starts with his own interpretation of Professor Lipset's essay. He writes that Harvard's "dedication to free and unfettered scholarship, according to Lipset has known little if any bounds." Such an "illusion" of academic "aloofness from external control" is scorned by Mr. Garin. But since Professor Lipset is defending only the ideal of a university as a center for critical intellect he is explicitly concerned with the effects of social and political disputes on this ideal. So he discusses President Lowell's bigotry; he covers restrictions on pro-Communist faculty and students during the McCarthy period...
...festivities of 1969 are of particular interest to Mr. Garin. He is angered by Professor Lipset's perception that a forceful reaction was actually desired by those who occupied University Hall. And the Crimson reviewer again presents his own version of Professor Lipset's logic: "The outrage of students and sympathetic faculty to the Bust was predictable, Lipset claims, because a similar reaction followed Josiah Quincy's decision to call in police to restore order after the riots of 1834." But Professor Lipset offers this comparison only to show that Harvard's resistance in external authority is long standing...
...seeking to 'purify' the University--the men who run this country also run Harvard. We are fighting against two major thrusts of the 'gentlemen' against poor people at home and abroad and against ourselves." Mr. Garin also connects the academic, economic, and political elites. But Professor Lipset reports data from an SDS run course showing that, when average American family income was $8,000 a year, average Harvard income was $17,000, and average $DS income was $23,000. Virtually all the students arrested in University Hall were WSA members, and of these" approximately 50 per cent attended prep school...
...external control an illusion. The illusion is based on the ability of those institutions to throw their chips in with the non-academic rulers of society. The merger may be a long-lasting one, but it will not be a happy one for the nineteenth-century vision promulgated by Lipset. At one point, the fiddler will change his tune, and the university will find itself in the position of having to dance. That will happen, one way or another. But more important, the university by its own means has destroyed the myth of scholarship for its own sake. It cannot...