Espionage at I-House

marlowe1
Fri, 01 Nov 2019 02:26:15 +0000

While I’m at it I can’t refrain from quoting from a speech given by Hutchins to one of the College classes of those years. He considered it the best speech he ever made. Given the world these college kids were about to enter his words have a poignancy, but the concept behind them is a familiar one to us and our children today and is much debated on this board. “I am not worried about your economic future… I am worried about your morals. Time will corrupt you. Your friends, your wives and husbands, your business and professional associates, will corrupt you; your social, political and financial ambitions will corrupt you.” Nevertheless, for this brief moment of your lives, he told them, “Believe me, you are closer to the truth than you will ever be again.” (Quoted in McNeill, p. 68.)