In this episode of the Longines Chronoscope, Felix Morley of Barron’s Financial Weekly discusses faculty and freedom within educational institutions. At the time, a draft (universal military training) was under debate in Congress and Huey asks Morley how this will affect colleges and universities. Morley states that schools with small enrollments will be affected because they won’t have the ability to offer a large ROTC program to the Pentagon. The subject of socialist thought being taught at these small colleges comes up and all three men agree that in the past, faculty were “joiners” of groups that later turned out to be “Commie fronts” and that disillusionment and distrust soon followed. Apparently, Mark believed that this tendency of faculty to be more was one of the reasons Communism was one of the nation’s problems, but that students would be more conservative if their teachers would allow a more free exchange of ideas. See the full length: www.qualityinformationpublishers.com
