Harvard Business School - Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Fra' idea! Hanan! is' Mas age T0 THE CLASSES CF I949 AND I95O I submit that the prime need of our university graduates is intellectual and moral courage. For however much one may discount the wild talk of ill-in- formed prophets or the calculated misinformation of special pleaders, the reali- ties of the civilized world will be sufficiently grim to frighten many men. . . We must have the boldness required to regard possible disaster with as much calmness as possible good fortune, we must be content with reckoning in terms of probabilities, we must resist the temptation to believe that because modern man can survey the present with miraculous ease . . . he can therefore foresee the future more clearly than in other times. In short, we must be reconciled to our limitations as mere morlals in spite of the triumphs of the machines we build. In an age in which methods of communication are such that bad news from every quarter pounds upon our sensibilities almost hourly, we must doggedly determine to limit to a bare minimum the acceptance of hearsay evidence . . . A deep concern for the welfare of humanity, a desire to participate in a struggle for a better world, can be coupled with a skeptical approach to many matters. Easy solutions for hard problems must be tested in the light of history and an accurate knowledge of current situations. To the extent that a university today can develop a critical attitude in its students and fortify their idealism and their courage, it will have succeeded in its task. 9

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