Ye Olde College Days

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Liberal Learning

“I speak of these matters here at Yale because of the self-evident truth that a great university is always enlisted against the spread of illusion and on the side of reality. 

“No one has said it more clearly than your President Griswold: ‘Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.’

“Your role as university men, whatever your calling, will be to increase each new generation’s grasp of its duties.” 

—President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), commencement address, Yale University, 1963

 
• Editorial Comment: I’d say we’ve lost our grasp.

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