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Because the rights of the unpopular were carefully written into the United States Constitution, the federal courts have always been stumbling blocks to temporary majorities. Whether the contemporary crusade has been liberal or conservative, courts have usually fulfilled their obligation to remind the public that no cause, no matter how popular, can exceed the limits of the Constitution...
...coverage has been so one-sided that the small fraction of communist or former communist instructors seem to many representative of faculties in general. "By every test of war and peace," the report states, "universities have proven themselves indispensable instruments of cultural progress and national welfare." This statement should remind the public that the stream of research, products, and experts flowing from the universities to Washington has done more to strengthen the nation than the comparative trickle of red influence has poisoned...
President George N. Shuster of Hunter College made another sort of headline: he proposed that Senator McCarthy be investigated. "I would remind you," he told the National Civil Liberties Clearing House in Washington, "that the university has always been a forum in the presence of which the lords of the passing hour are subjected to scrutiny. No doubt the time has come to ask on what meat this our Caesar has fed, and to review his activities with the utmost objectivity, calm and chilly resolution, so that an authoritative report can be made to the people...
...strange that a company so proud of its heritage should suddenly forget America was weaned and strengthened on dissent and ideas. But perhaps insurance companies must be sensitive to public opinion. It probably wouldn't take too many letters to remind the company of the principles of John Hancock. The lease runs out in May, and can still be renewed...
...remind Mr. Allen that Pope Pius XII is considered infallible only in matters concerning faith and morals. Also, that the great majority of "400 million people" are in no position to dictate the economic and military policies of their ravaged countries, but must wait hopefully and pray that the new President's Administration will restore their dignity and fill their stomachs...