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Fair Employment Practices in City Colleges

Of American professors, says Dr. George N. Shuster—who until recently was president of Hunter College—“many have been or are sons of rabbis and ministers of the Gospel who have preferred secular learning to the lore of Scripture. These have given to the universities and colleges they have served a very special impulse to achieve innovation and even reform. Perhaps they are primarily responsible for a quality no one can dissociate from the American campus and which is virtually unknown in Europe—a characteristic to be defined on the one hand as an almost bellicose addiction to freedom and on the other as a commitment to a ‘Liberal position,’ not quite a dogma this but almost one, which assays the Devil according to the degrees of his ‘conservatism.’ ”

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Fair Employment Practices in City Colleges

Of American professors, says Dr. George N. Shuster—who until recently was president of Hunter College—“many have been or are sons of rabbis and ministers of the Gospel who have preferred secular learning to the lore of Scripture. These have given to the universities and colleges they have served a very special impulse to achieve innovation and even reform. Perhaps they are primarily responsible for a quality no one can dissociate from the American campus and which is virtually unknown in Europe—a characteristic to be defined on the one hand as an almost bellicose addiction to freedom and on the other as a commitment to a ‘Liberal position,’ not quite a dogma this but almost one, which assays the Devil according to the degrees of his ‘conservatism.’ ”