Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Un-American Activities (Velde) Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee (Jenner) subcommittee on Internal Security are now investigating our colleges. Distinguished philosophers, physicists and mathematicians have been subpoenaed and interrogated privately and publicly with respect to past and present associations. There are indications that the committees are interested in the composition of the faculties, the textbooks used and the curricula. In the instance of at leant one college professor, a student has been subpoenaed for the purpose of repeating classroom discussions...
...hearings for legislative purposes within the constitutional of local education, Congress cannot legislates in this field of local education, are has it over sought to do so. Historically public educational institutions have been regulated locally by municipalities and states. Private institutions have been subject to no governmental control with respect either to their faculties or curricula...
...article concluded that the House system had produced tutors "who are completely without aloofness, without reserve; without dignity, without self-respect...
...this respect, President Eisenhower and former President Conant are better guides. The first has told us that . . . 'No man flying a war plane, no man with a defensive gun in his hand, can possibly be more important than the teacher.' The second has declared that . . . convincing evidence that a teacher is a member of the Communist Party is prima facie evidence of educational unfitness. Wisdom requires, however, that the faculties themselves administer these principles, and not outside agencies...
...overriding factor in Japan's position today is its proximity and vulnerability to Communist military power. What comfort the Japanese can feel comes from U.S. friendship. It is here that Five Gentlemen becomes an important as well as an illuminating study. Gibney came to like and respect the Japanese. His book explains why the five gentlemen and their 85 million countrymen are entitled to "American responsibility to see Japan through this tense period, insuring the safety no longer of an apprentice, but of a respected equal with great potency for good. The Japanese give much promise of justifying such...