Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newcomer to Westinghouse, Price's biggest worry was whether or not he could win the respect of the old hands. For a while it seemed a question whether he would lick the job or it would lick him. He chain-smoked cigars, often 20 a day. He developed ulcers worrying whether he could make good in an industry completely new to him. Price whipped his ulcers, grew assured enough not to mind the jokes about his mechanical ignorance, and cut down his smoking...
...your position is ambiguous. You criticize General Education A on the ground that the papers are generally unrelated to the rest of the student's work. But you also say that the papers in English A were specially valuable as academic experiences, despite the fact that in this respect they were just like the papers in General Education A. We find it difficult to determine which side of the issue you support...
...persuade the distinguished Mexico City lawyers, physicians and businessmen who now comprise almost 90% of the faculty to continue as part-time professors at a nominal fee of about $10 a month, after the university moves eleven miles away from their courts, hospitals and board rooms. These men, whose respect for the prestige of being on the university faculty has enabled the institution to operate on a ridiculously small budget, have largely set its tone. They attract to themselves personal disciples, who sit at their feet much as students sat at the feet of great scholars in medieval universities...
...professor is, by his very title, a man who professes. What does he profess? The truth as he sees it. Not Hitler's or Stalin's truth, and not the truth of the Congress, or even the American people either. His truth finding is entitled to the same respect to which the truth professing of the minister of religion is entitled. Both speak, or ought to speak, write and study with the sole eye to what they believe to be the truth. Their teaching must be so indubitably inspired by their conviction of what is the truth that...
What is the deeper reason for the development of academic freedom as a basic freedom in Western nations? I believe it is basically the same as religious freedom. They are both deeply rooted in the Judeo-Christian belief in the dignity of man. The dignity of man calls for respect on the part of everybody, including popular minorities in democracies for the conventional core of each and every member of society. For the average man this conventional core is represented by his religious faith. For the man of science and scholarship, it is represented by scientific and scholarly truth...