Dark Horses

Under the leadership of President John A. Howard, Rockford College of Illinois became a symbol of educational independence, resisting the lure of federal aid and going against the tide of liberal orthodoxy in the classroom. Now Dr. Howard (who relinquished the presidency in 1977) is working to bring additional luster to the Rockford name by developing the Rockford College Institute. The Institute’s field of specialization is the complex of religious moral and cultural ideas that undergird the free society. While strongly affirming the economic superiority of free enterprise, Howard and his colleagues at RCI believe that only if the ethical basis of the system is properly understood—and defended— does it stand a practical chance of survival.

This belief is the guiding principle of Corporate Responsibility, a collection of essay-speeches reviewing the onslaught of the so-called counterculture against the values and procedures of American business (Rockford College Institute, 5050 East State Street, Rockford, Ill. 61101; $1.50). Contributors to this symposium, in addition to Howard and RCI associate director Leopold Tyrmand, are Professor Yale Brozen of the University of Chicago, Admiral William C. Mott of the National Legal Center for the Public Interest, syndicated columnist Jeffrey St. John, and Professor Barbara Shenfield of the University of Buckingham, England.

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M. Stanton Evans

Under the leadership of President John A. Howard, Rockford College of Illinois became a symbol of educational independence, resisting the lure of federal aid and going against the tide of liberal orthodoxy in the classroom. Now Dr. Howard (who relinquished the presidency in 1977) is working to bring additional luster to the Rockford name by developing the Rockford College Institute. The Institute’s field of specialization is the complex of religious moral and cultural ideas that undergird the free society. While strongly affirming the economic superiority of free enterprise, Howard and his colleagues at RCI believe that only if the ethical basis of the system is properly understood—and defended— does it stand a practical chance of survival.

This belief is the guiding principle of Corporate Responsibility, a collection of essay-speeches reviewing the onslaught of the so-called counterculture against the values and procedures of American business (Rockford College Institute, 5050 East State Street, Rockford, Ill. 61101; $1.50). Contributors to this symposium, in addition to Howard and RCI associate director Leopold Tyrmand, are Professor Yale Brozen of the University of Chicago, Admiral William C. Mott of the National Legal Center for the Public Interest, syndicated columnist Jeffrey St. John, and Professor Barbara Shenfield of the University of Buckingham, England.