Phi Beta Kappa Hears Commager On 'Intellectual Free Enterprise'

Free enterprise in the United States must be intellectual and spiritual as well as economic, stressed Henry Steele Commager, professor of History at Columbia, last night.

Commager, in a lecture at the spring meeting of the Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa chapter, spoke on the topic, "The Importance of Dissent." He explained that the practical consequence of censoring free thought endanger any country.

Censorship and "loyalty" investigations, he stated, produce "submissive" people, teachers who advocate only "approved" doctrines, writers who never produces critical and independent works, and statesmen who suppress many of their ideas for fear of removal from office

Nine new members of Phi Beta Kappa were initiated at the meeting. Sadja Stokowski '51, a member since last year received commendation for having the highest four-year academic grades in her class.