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Branding the suit an attempt "to vindicate the views and interests of a group of individuals rather than the interest of the public generally," the University's attorneys moved for the dismissal of the case...
...professor of History, repeated his cyclical theory of politics. According to Schlesinger, the new decade will be "one of the exciting and creative epochs in our history." "The politics of the Fifties were.... the politics of fatigue," he wrote, adding, "The people wanted any excuse to forget public affairs...
...Freedom School teaches, essentially, the freedom of individual man and the injustice of institutional force. To the school's devotees, life's two worst evils are taxes and schools. Taxes are a highly objectionable example of the coerciveness that necessitates the eventual abolition of central government. Compulsory public school education is a vice and a tool of the existing order, teaching socialism on government handouts...
...orthodox or 'classical' economics, and what I'll call Keynesian or Galbraithian economics: . . . whether we are to let our present methods of production and distribution produce the kind of consumers' goods that annoy the intellectuals, or whether we will tamper politically so as to produce education, housing, hospitals, public transportation, which people ought to want...
...means of an unfettered search for truth on the part of those who devote their lives to seeking it...," he said "and by complete freedom in imparting... the truth that they have found. Either the University assumes full responsibility for permitting its professors to express certain opinions in public, or it assumes no responsibility whatsoever, and leaves them to be dealt with like other citizens by the public authorities." The University steered always by the latter course under President Lowell and consequently left its faculty free to say whatever they wished, provided they did so as independent citizens rather than...