The Higher Unlearning in America

This appeal for "the more positive teaching" is perhaps the most encouraging aspect of "war's impact" that we have noted among the academic hierarchy. . . . Obviously this must not mean that one point of view, or one set of convictions alone are to be taught at Yale, on the war or any other subject.

. . . Some gentlemen may be tempted to exceed the mark in their repentance of their sins of silence. Among these the name of Archibald McLeish leads all the rest. . . . This custodian of the nation's culture inferred last spring that the Word was more important than the truth, when he scored the post war writers for the effect of their work, although he could not deny the validity of the picture they painted. One may gather that if we are to join Mr. MacLeish in the Word hunt, we are to disregard truth and teach only that which serves our particular dogma. If we have learned an unpleasant fact which does not fit with our sympathies then we are to unlearn it as quickly as possible. The Yale News.