Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University drew praise once again yesterday for its defense of academic freedom. This time it came from Joseph E. Johnson '27, president of the Carnegie Foundation, who maintained that freedom of the mind will be vital in the necessary reappraisal of old concepts in the field of international relations...
...University drew praise once again yesterday for its defense of academic freedom. This time it came from Joseph E. Johnson '27, president of the Carnegie Foundation, who maintained that freedom of the mind will be vital in the necessary reappraisal of old concepts in the field of international relations...
Though Republican Herbert Hoover finally carried the University, all three Presidential candidates in 1928, including Socialist Norman Thomas, were represented among undergraduate organizations--and sometimes violently. The Smith Club petitioned to let the world know "the vital meaning of the world America"; the Republicans announced that Hoover was "well-informed"; and Thomas's Socialists (who accounted for 3.7 per cent of the final College vote) merely pleaded for a "just industrial system...
...addition to the House system would make each unit of a more manageable size, providing in part for the College's "need for something of the warmth and companionship that comes from fraternity living." The educational aspect of the addition would be an intensification of and improvement on the vital tutorial system, Cheever said...
Citation: "You have an abiding faith in the life of the mind. You possess the courage to state your convictions. You reveal a vital concern for the effectiveness of religion in these confusing days...