Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the past three days this newspaper has published a series of reports on academic freedom. The reports are condensations from a mass of material--condensations necessitated by the sheer weight of information on the cases investigated. The cases do not run to pattern. Just what conclusions, if any, can...
The CRIMSON articles have dealt only with the explicit and charged violations of academic freedom. The survey has not mentioned the hundreds of colleges and universities where such violations have been non-existent or of a normally petty nature. The strength of the opposition in even the most flagrant cases...
Some have tried to evade the issue by pointing out that the 1920 Scare died down in due time. This argument cannot be reasonably advanced now. Academic freedom was not so seriously endangered in the earlier period--for although the Russian revolution had scared a lot of people, there was...
"It has long been a canon of academic freedom that a man's political opinions have no bearing on his ability to obtain and hold an academic appointment.
"In the enveloping atmosphere of fear and hysteria, teachers, a timid lot under any circumstances, have become more timorous still. There are no overt threats to academic freedom, but campus liberals are less outspoken, more cautious and retiring."