Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part of any of its members which tends to damage its reputation. . . . Those whose convictions are of such a character as to bring their conduct in open conflict with the university's freedom to go its way toward its lofty aim should, in ordinary self-respect, withdraw of their own accord from university membership. . . . No reasonable person would insist upon remaining a member of a church, for instance, who spent his time in publicly denying and denouncing its principles and doctrines...
...university teacher. Here he does indeed admit that much freedom exists in some measure; but he would have us believe that it is subordinate to something which he calls the university's freedom. He urges those whose convictions bring their conduct into conflict with the university's freedom "to withdraw of their own accord from university membership...
...group wins in the foreign policy debate, Gottlieb will run for reelection as President of the H. S. U. Then he will urge the organization to withdraw from the American Student Union and to rename itself the Harvard Progressive Union
...Butler says: "Those whose convictions are of such a character as to bring them in open conflict with the university's freedom to go its way towards its lofty aim should, in ordinary decency and self-respect, withdraw of their own accord from university membership." This suggestion neglects to consider the interests of the student, who after all stands to suffer most by such action. Whether or not members of the faculty will take up Dr. Butler's challenge, we don't know. The result is more likely to be that those whose conduct is in "open conflict" with...
...will be exterminate. Dr. Butler phrases it somewhat more subtly (perhaps that is the advantage of a college education): "Those whose convictions are of such a character as to bring their conduct in open conflict with the University's freedom to go its way towards its lofty aim should . . . withdraw...