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This attitude presents incredible arrogance in associating Harvard with goodness, and other universities with less beneficence or value. For the fact is that if Huntington were denied the right to teach here, he would undoubtedly turn to "lesser" schools for employment, probably in the South or West, where other hawks such as Rostow and Rusk teach. So, what difference does it make if we deny him tenure? The difference is significant only if we assume that Harvard has more value or prestige than "lesser" schools, and that thus his punishment would be a "step down...
...most rational way of solving the "Huntington problem" would be to allow him to teach here, but for his students to challenge his theories and lectures in class, thus revealing to him to mistaken basis of his thought, which inevitably led us into Vietnam. However, undergraduates at this university seem quite docile in class, from what I have observed. They rarely challenge any professor's 'party line' lectures, as they are scared and too concerned about grades and getting into law or business or medical school. Thus, the Ad Hoc's flashy tactics are really a way of conveniently avoiding...
Cambridge Forum, What I Teach and Why: Oral Tradition Literature, Albert B. Lord, Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, 3 Church...
Still, when Helms sounds off with, "Your tax dollars are being used to teach our children cannibalism, wife swapping and the murder of infants," the message is clear, even if voters know the rhetoric is exaggerated. What isn't clear to many North Carolinians is the irony of an attack on Big Government by a man so beholden to Big Business, his denials of that association not withstanding...
...like for the next generation of students. "That's what you worry about--the profession," Giamatti explains, "how the institution can sustain young people." He views the younger faculty, soon to be the senior faculty, noting the declining sense of the "profession." He wants to see the school teach the people who want to learn, releasing original thought out into the world...