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094481 1 (1969-04-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacujn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 094481 CONVOCATION ADDRESS, ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE, ELIZABETHTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA BY ELMER B. STAATS, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES APRIL 24, 1969 ,OCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE PUBLIC SERVICE I appreciate the invitation to be here this evening, but I must confess to a slight element of surprise. I suppose I would have to be categorized these days as a member of the Establishment, coming as I do from Washington; being the head of an agency; and, most importantly, past the half century mark, age-wise. But if I am a member of the Establishment, where does that leave your President? It's in these days to criticize the college president if not actually to physically oust him from his office. That happened at the American University in Washington day before yesterday. Dr. Wesley Posvar, Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, remarked on this theme before the University's Faculty Senate recently, saying that it is easy for any college president to be criticized by the far left or the far right, for that matter. If he is particularly adroit, Dr. Posvar added, he can even manage to be criticized by both of them--simultaneously. There may of course be no typical college or college president. But if college presidents are restless these days it is because they have a variety of publics and constituencies, nearly all of whom are restless: disturbed students, alarmed faculty, inquiring trustees, / p 2

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