Declaring that teaching in modern institutions of higher education is “shallow and flabby”, Rabbi Baruch Braunstein, counselor to Jewish students at Columbia. University, declared that the student is an easy target for propaganda in a speech before the Jewish Fellowship at the Hotel McAlpin.
“The manifestations of swastika flurries, the growing division and dislike between student groups on the same campus, show that propaganda is having results,” Dr. Braunstein asserted. “Vicious propaganda is spreading rapidly among college students, which presages a none too happy state of affairs when tomorrow they be come the nation’s leaders.
“The responsibility for maintaining the traditional spirit of college life, one of decency and fair play, among its students now rests with the college authorities. I solemnly warn them, if they refuse to act to curb a growing evil on the pretext of the preservation of the right of free speech, they are permitting various groups to gain the power to crush all free speech and freedom of thought,” he concluded.
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