FREEDOM IN UNIVERSITY MEANS FREEDOM IN WORLD
Freedom in University Means Freedom in World —Pres. Dykstra 600 Students, Parents Hear I). President Lush Hitler "Unless we preserve the freedom of the university, there will be no freedom...
...He answered: "Let us, in Wisconsin, have faith in the guiding principle of this university, in the sifting and winnowing process which goes on here in our search for light and truth...
...Dykstra said...
...who will see with their own eyes, who will think with their own minds, who will speak what they believe, without fear or fawning, men competent to act without being driven, men whose souls are their own," he said...
...President Lush Hitler "Unless we preserve the freedom of the university, there will be no freedom outside of its walls," Pres...
...Let us keep it that way...
...More than 1.000 parents from all sections of the state and outside the state were on the campus for the program...
...Gentlemen and civilized people are unprepared to meet such an ideology head-on," Dykstra said, referring to Hitler's philosophy of Nazi Germany as set forth in his book...
...He declared that democracy cannot be preserved by totalarian processes, even when they pretend to be the very bulwarks of freedom...
...Here on this campus let us adhere to the belief that freedom makes the free man and the free man helps to guarantee freedom," Pres...
...We want to develop men who will get up from their knees, who will stand on their feet, their own feet...
...and Mrs...
...We believe that men and women are entitled to be men and women, rather than robots or cogs in a machine...
...Here is a return to barbarism and savagery, but of a new kind, for it is mechanized, motorized and implemented by modern science...
...The university president said that "in guarding freedom on a university campus we guard the freedom of all everywhere...
...Miss Jean Fritschle, Milwaukee, co-chairman of the Parents' Weekend program, represented students on the banquet program...
...Dykstra, honored guests, and faculty members Friday at a reception in the gallery room of the Memorial Union...
...We cannot accept the idea of uniform and uniformed masses with arms that rise and fall rhythmically," Dykstra said...
...Let those who think of this campus as a subversive spot consider and ponder these things before repeating such charges...
...The university president reviewed the story of the destruction now taking place in Europe, the chaotic history of the past 10 years, and asked his audience what purpose they thought the university should serve...
...The Badger university executive spoke to visiting parents and university students at a banquet in connection with the Parents' Weekend program on the campus...
...The university is both lighthouse and experiment station...
...Parents and students met Pres...
...The mass man is not man as we contemplate him here at the university...
...Clarence A. Dykstra told BOO students and their parents at the Memorial Union last week as he warned that "the doctrine of force and violence has no use for a free educational system...
...The meaning and obligation of citizenship is a constant challenge to students on this campus...
...He said such processes closed the ears of those who might listen to another voice or another teaching, insisting that all shall learn and learn only what one man declares...
...Quoting from a passage of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf," Dykstra was emphatic in his statement that the point of view expressed was at variance with the aims and purposes of a university and a democratic people...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 21
