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denly dawned on me that these are the
people who matter. We dodos are of no importance
except to ourselves. But there is
something mighty touching - to me at least -
about the youngsters (as I think of them)
starting out so bravely in a surly world. Raising
families just as if there were no possibility
the world may be blown to smithereens
any decade. For instance, one item in the
notes of a class in the '60s - a girl reporting
that she is teaching school and taking studies
herself while waiting for her Cornell young
husband to get back from his tour of duty in
Viet Nam. Just mentioned it casually, no
complaint, as though he were on a sales trip
to the West Coast. But you know what that
child must be undergoing so courageously,
and what her man must be going through,
over there in the jungle. Pray God he may
come back safely to her. Am I being too
sentimental?
LETTERS
Reviews Horse Incident
Yours,
FRANK SULLIVAN '14
EDITOR: Friends who know of my interest
in Cornell as an alumnus, the father of two
Cornell grads, and a free-lance writer who
has written on Cornell history, have been
asking me, "How come the Trojan Horse
furor (see page 20-Ed.)?" How did such a
situation develop? I have kept busy explaining
that a university has to bend over backwards
to avoid charges of censorship; that
students have to be led not driven; that those
students who staged a near-riot were (whether
they realized it or not) upholding an
ancient tradition of freedom of the campus
from outside regulation and control - whether
royal authority, or municipal, or clerical;
that had it not been for a series of
unfortunate circumstances (for example,
President Perkins attending an important
trustees' meeting), the affair would not have
blown up into such a storm. In good season
the university would have attended to cleaning
its own house, just as its janitors periodically
clean the dirty scribblings that occasionally
find their way on the walls of the
lavatories. Or the way it curbed the excessive
drinking which a decade or so ago
threatened to mar home football games.
To my fellow-Cornellians, students today,
but tomorrow's alumni, I would like to
say:
You've made your point. The Judge has
spoken. But in upholding "freedom of the
press" in the Horse case, he figuratively held
his nose, calling much of the diary "vile and
evil" and the whole writing "garbage and
trash." You can show your contempt for this
"literature," which under the aegis of the
university label has momentarily made many
Cornellians ashamed, by giving any reprinting
a very cold shoulder.
Permit me also to remind you as gently as
I can that the right of petition is not reserved
to minorities. A majority, too, has the right
to petition. I believe the great mass of stu-
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