Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debate, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetiric an Oratory, concluded: "We must reconsider the objectives of a liberal education, but more important, we must reaffirm them, or we run the risk of defeating communism by a new communism...
Philip H. Rhinelander, Director of General Education, moderated the forum on "The Objectives of a Liberal Education," and the speakers, in addition to MacLeish, were McGeorge Bundy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Bart J. Bok, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy...
...address Professor MacLeish said that the five citations were but the opinions of men who have "witnessed the administrative conduct of University affairs over a critical period of its history, and in the history of the Republic, and who wish now to speak their minds...
...MacLeish then credited Harvard's calm decision with saving other universities from surrendering their rights as free institutions and helping to prevent the United States from a form of society in which "things of the mind are regulated by the central state...
Professor Morison spoke before MacLeish. The distinguished historian charged his colleagues "to avoid acts, or associations that will bring our university into difficulties; to observe a decent respect to the opinions of mankind, even when these opinions of mankind, even when these opinions are erroneous and absurd; and above all, to avoid an attitude of smug superiority--the unforgivable sin in a democratic society...