Words from Kansas

Words from Kansas Two gentlemen from Kansas were installed as college presidents last week--and both seemed to have the same thing on their minds.

P:Said the University of Kansas' new Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy: "Character assassination by innuendo and half truth, with careless regard for the facts . . . will inevitably lead to a paralysis of free thought just as debilitating to American democracy as the conduct of those who would utilize American institutions to overthrow and subvert these same institutions . . . Stifle the intellectual freedom of our universities, and you stop the progress of American democracy." P: Said Cornell's new President Deane W. Malott, former chancellor of the University of Kansas: "The fearful ones who hate and condemn the liberalism in our colleges never suggest any additions to the store of human knowledge, but always subtractions. They want us to leave out all that is interesting and vital, the great current social issues, the great controversies in forms of government, systems of finance and policies of ethics . . . Such a course would not mean free minds."

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