Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realize fully that there was room for honest disagreement about the decision and I respect the position taken by the four professors who protested against it; for on the question of freely permitting the expression of diverse or unpopular opinions I would stand squarely with them. They thought it was involved, I did not. The "Bender rule" is admirably expressed and I should hope it would always be followed in cases where the issue is one of freedom of speech. Jerome D. Greene '96 Former Secretary to the Corporation
Looking ahead, the outcome at Geneva depends on what the West is prepared to do about Asia. And the West does not know. Paris wants to end the unpopular Indo-China war. France's General Henri Navarre, the able French commander in Indo-China, believes the war can be won with more strength. Yet French leaders in Indo-China do not want too much U.S. help for fear that the help might provoke Communist China into open intervention. Within the Eisenhower Administration, the situation is just as confused: one faction of the State Department thinks Indo-China...
...Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead was challenging it to "rise to its opportunity, and in the modern world repeat the brilliant leadership of medieval Paris." If the U.S. university does rise, says Nathan Pusey, it will not be by curtailing its pursuit of truth, "no matter how unpopular," but by carrying on the pursuit more fully...
Over the years, the policy of the College, if somewhat vague, has been of the same tone as the "Bender Rule." Only once in recent years has the College barred a speaker of unpopular views from University buildings. And the storm the incident provoked yielded a well-learned lesson for the College. The man about whom the controversy centered was the American Communist, Earl Browder...
...Rule" has guided College action consistently up to the present. Men of such diverse opinions as Howard Fast and Gerald L. K. Smith have been granted permission to speak. Despite attacks from the American Legion and feelings of vague uneasiness, the men in University Hall have allowed advocates of unpopular ideas to be heard. Tonight, the health and vigor of this attitude will receive new proof when Owen Lattimore speaks at the United Nations Council forum at New Lecture Hall...