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Lawrence is a privately controlled co-educational college of arts and sciences. Lawrence College's President before Pusey was Henry Wriston, now president of Brown...
These remarks were made in an extension of Dr. Wriston's talk, pointing out the need for increased contributions by industry to institutions of higher learning. This became necessary when higher personal-inheritance and income tax rates rose to a point where individual contributions could no longer support the increased costs of running these institutions...
...Wriston stated, "We know the Russians have tried to infiltrate many aspects of American life . . . It is inconceivable that they would overlook anything as vitally important as education...
...know, as a matter of ordinary common sense that every profession has a certain number of persons who have succumbed to the Communist line," Wriston went on, "but any analysis behind the headlines into the real meat of the (Jonner Committee) report would make it evident that the colleges are pretty sharp competitors with Ivory soap in the matter of purity...
Concluding his address, Wriston said, "The universities and colleges of America are today a manifestation of free interprise in the intellectual world . . . They cannot exist if they are not faithful to liberty...