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...questioned intensively before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. At the time he stated that he thought professors who took the fifth should be fired. Several weeks later, speaking before his final Faculty meeting, Conant voiced a dislike for the investigations, and said that the University had no a priori policy regarding professors who appeared before congressional committees. Still, his comments before the Foreign Relations Committee and the Sutherland-Chafee statement would seem to have been all the precedent the University needed to fire Wendell Furry for his refusal to testify in February...
...student radicals seem to perceive any conflict between their underlying existential philosophies and their Marxist sympathies. There is certainly a strong psychological link between the two. Anyone drawn to the uncompromising individualism of existentialism with its rejection of a priori moral authority is likely to have an opposing urge to commit himself entirely to authority. That is a commonplace in psychology, but it is often forgotten by those who notice the intellectual inconsistency between the two positions. Sartre easily fits the existentialist-Marxist pattern of deep ambivalence to authority, if the childhood he describes in The Words is any indication...
...spite of Harvard's a priori superiority, the Bulldogs put up a considerable fight. While Yale's five hits were all solid, the Crimson's victory was filtered through a series of bloopers, errors and cheap hits...
Which of these two positions one takes is almost an-act of faith. We have little reason to believe a priori that America can succeed where she has so long failed, and yet we must reject Malcolm X's alternative and redouble our efforts to achieve a more perfect union. For if Malcolm X is right then we are doomed, not as Americans, not as whites, but as human beings, as inhabitants of this planet. For if he is right then Africa will not be too far for him to take his people. In a few years black Africa will...
Wilcox cited as further reasons for rejecting the program two "hidden policy changes" involved in its adoption. It would saddle graduate school admissions committees with "a priori commitments," and it would also necessitate recognizing the M.A. program as a regular course of study. "At present all M.A.'s are legally crumpers from the Ph. D. program," Wilcox said...