Cornell History: Becker's address April 27, 1940 Carl Becker delivers his “Freedom and Responsibility” address in honor of the 75th anniversary of the university’s charter signing. A professor of American and European history, Becker captured the spirit of the university with a phrase that has become a Cornell trademark. Becker expressed “ ... the hope that Cornell in the future, whatever its gains, whatever its losses, may hold fast to its ancient tradition of freedom and responsibility – freedom for the scholar to perform his proper function, restrained and guided by the only thing that makes such freedom worthwhile, the scholar’s intellectual integrity, the scholar’s devotion to the truth of things as they are and to good will and humane dealing among men.”
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