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Affirmation and Dissent: Columbia’s Response to the Crisis of World War Ireviewed by Walter P. Metzger - 1972 Title: Affirmation and Dissent: Columbia’s Response to the Crisis of World War I Author(s): William Summerscales Publisher: John Wiley, New York ISBN: , Pages: , Year: Search for book at Amazon.com The principal merit of this slender book is that it links the
assaults on academic freedom at Columbia University during World
War I to precursive changes in that institution's internal
structure, size, and administrative style. To the extent that
historians still regard the campus repressions of that period as
discrete and anomalous misadventures, chargeable to
war-shock and nothing else, a contextual approach of this sort
serves an important corrective purpose. While the author may
not acknowledge the thesis, his archival researches support
the argument that the unhappy events of 1917 were more often
denouements than lapses; more often the outcomes of settled
habits than the works of temporarily enfevered minds.
It is clear, for example, that the Columbia Board of Trustees
had not awaited the signal of the Wilson war message to indulge its
taste for inquisition. In the spring of 1916 it had summoned the
eminent historian, Charles A. Beard, and several junior members of
the faculty to respond in star chamber to the allegation... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Walter Metzger
Columbia University
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