Exchange with Dr. Zack about "A Moral Mission for Colleges" (1986)

1. Dr. Zack to R. Lamm (Oct. 30, 1986)

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Exchange with Dr. Plunkett about "A Moral Mission for Colleges" (1986)

Dear Dr. Lamm: You are to be congratulated for your October 14th article on the moral mission of colleges. Your statement of the principles contained in your article was long overdue, and it was as clear and concise a message that I have had the pleasure of reading in a long time. As the new Chairman of the Council of Governing Boards in New York State, I was particularly pleased to have the opportunity to reflect on your message and to circulate it to many of my fellow Trustees in the state. We hope to use your article and many of the thoughts contained therein as a foundation for some of the work that we hope to accomplish throughout the state in the years to come.Congratulations and best wishes.Sincerely yours,William F. Plunkett, Jr. WFP/td17 Elk StreetP.O. Box 7149Albany, NY 12224518/436

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Exchange with Jeffrey Holland about "A Moral Mission for Colleges" (1986)

Dear President Lamm: I was heartened and inspired by your recent article in The New York Times entitled "A Moral Mission for Colleges." You make a very telling point in a wonderfully articulate way and I commend you for your leadership in this important area. The whole matter of declining moral and ethical strength in public and private life, particularly as such a decline indicts educational practices, is a chief concern of mine. I am taking the liberty of enclosing a copy of a talk I gave at the National Press Club not long after the highly publicized A Nation at Risk was issued. Perhaps you will find it of at least passing interest. With best wishes, Jeffrey R. Holland

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Exchange with R. Berkovits about "A Moral Mission for Colleges" (1986)

Dear Rabbi Lamm, Many thanks for sending me your articles, lectures, etc. I admire your ability to carry on a creative work of learning and lecturing, writing, managing so successfully the presidency of Y.U. This time, however, I have to write to you. I have just finished your article from Jewish World, titled Illusions. I prized part in clipping into my letter file. Congratulations for a master-piece. The ultimate truth about the present intellectual and spiritual situation. What hurts one most is the bitter truth that what you say may equally be said, though in a different style, about the Yeshivishe Velt. It’s the great tragedy of our times that some of the roshei yeshiva and gedolim are also afflicted with illusions.

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