In this episode of the Longines Chronoscope, Felix Morley of Barron’s Financial Weekly discusses faculty and freedom within colleges, universities, and 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. They will therefore lose funding and enrollment. Morley predicts that if this happens, small colleges could die off. The subject of “liberal thought” or 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. The subject then turned to the academic freedoms and Morley maintained that this idea should apply to both teachers and students. Apparently, Mark believed that this tendency of faculty to be more liberal and pro-socialism 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. Morley cites, though, that more college men than not support Truman’s “Fair Deal.” See the full length video at: www.qualityinformationpublishers.com
