Abstract

M OST activities of a frontier have a pressing urgency. In contrast, quiet modes of living on many American campuses tend to make frontier conditions seem remote. This is true of even such well-publicized conditions as those associated with activities of fifth columns and with cold warfare, whether economic, psychological, idealistic, or religious in focus. But how remote do more basic and less obvious frontier conditions seem? Does postwar planning for education indicate an increased sensitiveness to the survival necessities of Western civilization as compelling as the growing concern for the immediate welfare of particular institutions? If so, to what basic survival necessities does this sensitiveness direct attention? Writing in this JOURNAL on The Spirit Needed for the Times, Chancellor Hutchins said,

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